#0002 - Help! (the Beatles')

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Watched: 2008-11-12

Runtime: 96 min.
Year: 1965
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: the Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr) Leo McKern, Victor Spinneti, Eleanor Bron
Genre: comedy, musical film
Tagline(s): Stop worrying, HELP! is on the way

Summary:
Ringo was sent a sacrificial ring by in a fan letter and is now being hunted down by a religious cult from the "mystic east" because of it. Trying to keep him from harm, the beatles travel the world to find a way to get the ring of his finger.

Review:
It's one of my all time favorite movies. Brilliant random humor, Beatles at their peak of beatlemania, nice songs, just a lot of love.
It's a fast movie; you get absolutely no breathing time rolling from one attempt on Ringo's life into the other. In 3 words: fun, random & sexy.

Best quotes:

"Hey, it's a thingy! A fiendish thingy!"

"Stop him? It's more than my job's worth to stop him once he gets started. He's out to rule the world... if he can get a government grant."

"Good Lord! So it famous is!"

Ringo: "The Fire Brigade once got my head out of some railings."
John: "Did you want them to?"
Ringo: "No, I used to leave it there when I wasn't using it for school. You can see a lot of the world from railings."