# Why no Help? \[Beatles Movie\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 12, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420 "2022-12-12T20:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/21 "2022-12-13T05:05:48Z")
You should buck the trend of saying things like that. You’d be owings us an apology. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/22 "2022-12-13T06:04:01Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I was so disappointed when I found out they didn’t really all share those really cool digs. I was disappointed to find it wasn’t the boys doing the voices in Yellow Submarine. Come on! I saw YS when it was new, and I was eight. I loved it. I saw it again when I was an adult, I realized you had to be stoned to enjoy it. Or eight. I still think the Blue Meanies and the green apple guys are creepy cool. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/23 "2022-12-13T06:05:27Z")
Not bad. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/24 "2022-12-13T06:16:21Z")
The densest crowd I’ve ever been was for the opening of _Help!_ Sixth grade, tiny neighborhood theater, me and hundred or so middle schoolers all packed together, moving around like a big amoeba… … and my feet weren’t touching the ground. We were all so squished shoulder-to-shoulder that I just picked up my feet and got carried along with the crowd. You kids with your mosh pits and Who concerts; we were living with danger before you were even born. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/25 "2022-12-13T07:13:23Z")
I’ve seen Help! on TV and I’ve never seen A Hard Day’s Night playing on TV. Probably just a fluke, though. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/26 "2022-12-13T07:42:10Z")
believe it or not the first time I saw a hard days night was on the Disney channel in the early 90s when they actually had things for adults on it still and weren’t trying to be nickelodeon ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/27 "2022-12-13T08:10:11Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I saw it on TV as a kid several times in the 1970s. I was so disappointed when I found out they didn’t really all share those really cool digs. Loved John’s sunken bed! Always wanted one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/28 "2022-12-13T08:13:00Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Ringo was the aspiring actor of the bunch…and all he had to do was act naturally. Did you ever see the 1970s film he did where he okayed himself as well as his doppelgänger, Ognir Rrats? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/29 "2022-12-13T09:30:37Z")
I did, I don’t remember much about it now except I think Art Carney was in it and playing his Dad. Caveman with Shelley Long was silly fun. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/30 "2022-12-13T09:39:31Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Tragical History Tour. I don’t think the Rutles actually made it into a full feature film, just the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/31 "2022-12-13T11:06:25Z")
> [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > I don’t think the Rutles actually made it into a full feature film, just the trailer. “All You Need Is Cash” was a full length feature film with the Rutles, particularly Eric Idle. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/32 "2022-12-13T13:08:38Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > “All You Need Is Cash” was a full length feature film with the Rutles, particularly Eric Idle. No? Really? /s ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/33 "2022-12-13T13:25:52Z")
I recently watched _Help!_ on Apple TV, and as usual, went to look up trivia about the movie on IMDB. The boys were completely stoned on pot the day they filmed the curling scene in the Austrian Alps. I thought they looked a bit dazed and confused when I was watching. And BTW, “fiendish thingy” has become a favorite phrase of mine. George Harrison was introduced to the sitar by the restaurant musicians when they were filming the Indian restaurant scenes, and this started him off on his Indian music interests. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/34 "2022-12-13T14:30:17Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I’ve never seen A Hard Day’s Night playing on TV. Watch the listings for TCM. That’s where I’ve seen it. > [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > No? Really? /s Ouch! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sb1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@sb1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sb1953)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/35 "2022-12-13T14:57:39Z")
The cover of “Help” showed the band with their arms in different positions. I was probably 20 years old before I realized they were pretending to use boy-scout signal flags spelling out “help” sigh as my garmma said:…" too soon ist vee old,… too late ist vee schaht" ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/36 "2022-12-13T15:05:47Z")
While on the subject of the album, can we all agree that it was the biggest con Capitol Records ever foisted upon American Beatles fans? (Apologies to any Ken Thorne fans out there…) ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/37 "2022-12-13T15:19:36Z")
Which album, and how? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/38 "2022-12-13T15:24:31Z")
The real turkey of a Beatles movie is _Magical Mystery Tour_. Granted, it was a TV-movie. > “Mystery tours”, overnight bus rides to unknown destinations, were popular in England as low-budget weekend getaways. Most of this movie was shot in a rented bus filled with friends, acquaintances, Beatles office staff, a camera crew, and a handful of experienced actors, rambling around the English countryside one holiday weekend. Everyone was encouraged to invent his or her own character, let whatever was going to happen happen, and the results would be magical. Unfortunately, most of the passengers “acted” like anyone else travelling on a bus tour. [John Lennon](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006168) and [George Harrison](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365600) spent most of the trip sleeping or avoiding the cameras. The bus, with a hand-lettered “Magical Mystery Tour” sign, attracted curious on-lookers who began following in droves. Suggestions to film the chaos mounting outside were shot down. Lennon ultimately ordered the bus to stop, got out, and tore the lettering off the sides. He later derided the whole program as “The most expensive home movie ever made.” - IMDB ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/39 "2022-12-13T15:25:55Z")
> [@Capn\_Carl](#): > > Which album, and how? The US release of the album _Help!_ was almost 50% incidental soundtrack music (by Ken Thorpe) and Muzak style instrumental versions of actual Beatles songs. ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-help-beatles-movie/976420/40 "2022-12-13T15:38:11Z")
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