THE BEATLES | A HARD DAY'S NIGHT | Documentary Film

[karenkaren]

Just watched it tonight again for the first time in 20 years. Still as fresh and wonderful as ever.

[usuk]

I was one of the screaming kids chasing after the train. We were chatting with Norman Rossington who was fantastic. He showed us this door and he told us to go in there, which we did and low and behold there was The Beatles.
We also went to Scala Theatre where they filmed on stage with them singing.
When it was over we ran out trying to catch the Beatles. Their car was coming towards us and my friend held onto the car door and was running with the car and went smack into a lamp post. She ended up having stitches and Paul sent her a basket of flowers. Great guy.
I have some wonderful memories of those days and wouldn't have missed the 60's for the world.

[Cryo]

They were not only a breath of fresh air, The Beatles were a life changing experience for young kids everywhere. I remember in Nov 1964 sitting watching the movie as a 10 yo boy. I remember being angry with the girls who were screaming and wetting themselves (my friends older brother worked at the theater and had to "mop the seats" after each showing). 
Anyway, I came away loving The Beatles and my new hero was Lennon. I was a very straight "good boy" but somehow his "rebel" image struck a chord. I eventually refused to let my Dad give me the standard "crew cut". And two years later I got my first guitar (Sears Silvertone and amp) and even played in my 20's in a "Beatle band". How their music evolved so quickly still amazes me. So lucky to have grown up seeing it all unfold.
Thank God for these "old straight white males" who let things unfold naturally. HDN is ART!!!

[sharonmartin]

I was there at Marylebone station when this was made .My dear dad was a railway worker on this station so got passes to be there.. .I was 8 years old .Sadly my dad died a year later.I will never forget the screams and getting Wilfred Brambell and Norman Rossingtons autograph .Lovely memories for me.

[PaulMichael-zg]

David Picker is the boss everybody wants. He puts things in motion, but then let's people get about their work and trusts their judgement. He also got involved with bringing us Sean Connery's James Bond series and Saturday Night Fever. Not everything did was gold, but for A Hard Day's Night, James Bond, and Saturday Night Fever we owe him our collective entertainment gratitude.

[whitsundaydreaming]

There is an atmosphere to rhis film unlike anything else of its kind. Each song performance has a surreal quality that comes thru even on iphone youtube playback. That's a testament to sheer brilliance in musicianship and directing. This film still makes me cry as a 62 year old fan-- there'll never be a replacement for it.

[emmitstewart]

I was there when the movie was first shown in Canton, Ohio and it was the most intense experience of my life. Every time one of the Beatles started to speak or sing, every girl in the theatre started screaming and didn't stop until the Beatle stopped talking. It wasn't until a year later, when the movie went on television that I actually heard any of the dialogue or songs. It's a tribute to the quality of the movie that, with all that going on, I still had a wonderful time.

[joemanzione]

I remember seeind AHDN in 1964 in Brooklyn NY...you couldn't hear the movie..the girls screemed from the opening G cord to the final fade out ...IT WAS GREAT...I miss the Beatles more now than ever.

[ef]

The Beatles were my first ever favorite band . . . 50 years later and they're now my all-time favorite band.

[FreedomFighter-crxg]

When in Rio de Janeiro Brazil I happened to walk by a movie theater that was playing the movie A HARD DAY'S NIGHT .. the seats were filled with Spanish, Portuguese speaking teenagers all clapping along with the songs and really enjoying the movie ... they did not understand what was being said on the movie, but it did not matter .. what mattered is that they were watching the Beatles ...I will never forget that .. it was something awesome to be a part of

[couldliveonyoutube]

I'll never feel that The Beatles were anything but The Teachers. They had wisdom beyond their ages, taught us how to climb out of the narrow box we've been taught is life. Love (not small attached to a human love, for example) wasn't generally discussed, the depth of human experience, death, their creativity, and expression just never gets old! Little did they know what life had in store for them! Little did we know their absolute Genius and the importance of their messages for us. I'm still hearing sounds I've never heard even though I've heard every song about 3, 000, 000 times lol

[arpeggiomikey]

I was 12 when the Lads from Liverpool stormed the US in '64. I was just a beginning musician, and was struck by their BOLD ideas, their bracing harmonies, Ringo's distinctive backbeats, and their skill and tightness as a group, all in ample evidence in their premier album, "Meet the Beatles".
Naturally, I was thrilled to learn they'd made a film called "A Hard Day's Night", and I went to the local theater where the price of admission was a quarter -- just 25 cents to watch this miraculous bit of cinematic (and MUSICAL) history!
I was so taken with what I witnessed that I hid in the venue after the first showing, then watched it again, something I had never done before nor since. Naturally, I wanted to start playing their music once I began gigging a few years later, and I've loved it for over half a century now!

[sejrec]

I was about 7 years old when Hard Days Night came out in the theatres. Fortunately I had a sister 4 years older than me, and she got our grandmother to drive her, her girlfriend and me, and I think my younger brother too, I'd have to ask him but he was only 4 at the time. But we're in this movie theatre, everybody excited to see this close up film of the Beatles and to hear them play their songs. It was a surreal event, for as soon as the opening chord of the title song came on, all the girls in there began screaming as if we were at one of their concerts. This continued throughout most of the film. We couldn't hear any dialog, and barely any songs cuz of the screaming. My grandmother was flipping out with these girls screaming in the theatre, trying to tell them to be quiet, lol, cuz her generation, you could barely whisper. At one point she wanted to leave and said lets go, and my older sister insisted that we stay, so we stayed. We had an aunt who was a school teacher who bought my sister the first Beatles album, telling her this is the group that all the kids are going nuts over. So my sister, myself and even my 4 year old brother, became lifelong fans of the Beatles. And actually I think my brother and I carried on as stronger fans, than our sister, as we became musicians as we grew older. Today I'm 62, and still love the Beatles as my ultimate number one choice. They inspired me to become a songwriter, and to the point of winning a grand prize in a Billboard magazine song contest, with a song, with a Beatlesque feel to it. I've now four albums out of my own songs, on my website at Jensongs.net. And I owe so much of it to The Beatles for inspiring me to achieve the same. No one will ever achieve their status again, but so many memories with so many of their songs!!! It's endless. Long live the Beatles, and that title song A Hard Days Night, was written over night on demand, of Richard Lester who asked them the night before if they could write a song called A Hard Days Night. HDN was and is such a powerful song to open ANY movie.

[jiminycrint]

I was a very young kid when A Hard Days Night came out. My older sister was the one with the posters & singles. We went to the cinema and I just remember laughing a lot and watching the whole thing with a great big smile on my face. My older siblings bought all the albums through the 60’s which I could then listen to when I snuck in their rooms. Even that young I could see the connection to the Goon Show style of humour.

It’s so great to hear these conversations after so many years. It was a truly joyous time with so many unexpected almost accidental creations emanating from these super bright young guys from Liverpool. I remain an avid Beatle nut to this day and I’d challenge anyone to a quiz 😂

[frankhowson]

Love every second of that movie. How could you not? The Beatles' personal charm and wit, let alone talent, shone at their brightest. And every one from director to screenwriter right on down, were perfect choices. As though it was destiny that this movie would be special in every way.

[jamesmack]

The actual album has 2 of my all time favorite tunes-"I'll cry instead" and "Things we said today"

[larydixon]

The Incredible pressure and demands placed on these four lads would have Crushed anyone else, and yet they produced even more amazing music than anyone would have ever imagined.. The sheer magic and overflowing energy from them was a power that no one had ever seen before, and has never been surpassed to this day ! What a great time to be Lary

[MarkInLA]

Great Thanks to the producers of this excellently made documentary of this mega-important world phenomenon !!

[willsullmusic]

I was Sweet 16 at the time this movie came out and I was very much into the Beatles before then. I remember going to the theater in San Jose, where I grew up, and buying my ticket for the first showing of the movie that day (there were 3 total!), but having to endure the "in between" film, "The Incredible Mr. Limpet", to wait for it to come up again. Was I a diehard Beatle Fan? I did this at least 3 times on weekends that summer and now, into my 70's, still enjoy this "Incredible Mr. Beatles" movie. It is timeless!

[AnthonyMonaghan]

It all came together so magically. A moment in time like no other. A Hard Days Night is such a solid album, the first really great long player by The Beatles, songs written for a movie they knew nothing about?! Fantastic. And, it's a great movie.