You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'

1995 · Music · 1h 2m

Thirty years after "A Hard Day's Night", its producer, director, writer, and others describe its making. United Artists Records came to Walter Shenson, asking him to produce a movie so UA could issue a soundtrack album. Shenson signed Lester to direct, and they got the Beatles to agree to star. Shenson sent Owen to Dublin to spend time with the Fab Four; from this came a script built around their being prisoners of their own success. Phil Collins, himself an extra on "A Hard Day's Night", hosts this examination of a seminal film: what was ad-libbed, why it was a hit, what its influence was on other movies, and how it defined the way the public viewed each Beatle for decades.