Help! [DVD] / screenplay by Marc Behm & Charles Wood ; story by Marc Behm ; produced by Walter Shenson ; directed by Richard Lester ; Walter Shenson Films Ltd., Subafilms Ltd.
Format:
[DVD] /
Publisher:
Capitol RecordsInc.,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
2 videodiscs (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : col. ill., ports. ; 18 x 13 cm.)
Originally released as a motion picture in 1965. Booklet written by Richard Lester and Martin Scorsese. The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr), Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, Roy Kinnear, John Bluthal, Patrick Cargill, Alfie Bass, Warren Mitchell, Peter Copley, Bruce Lacey. Location scenes filmed in the Bahamas, Obertauern (Austria), and on the Salisbury Plain in England. Special features: The Beatles in Help! (30-minute documentary) ; A missing scene, featuring Wendy Richard ; The restoration of Help!: an in-depth look at the restoration process ; Memories of Help!: the cast and crew reminisce ; 3 theatrical trailers ; 1965 radio spots.
Contents:
Disc 1: Help! (96 min.) -- Disc 2: Special features (57 min.).
Summary:
Ringo possesses a sacrificial ring, which he cannot remove from his finger. As a result, the Beatles are chased from London to the Austrian Alps to the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientists and the London police.
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