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The Beatles begin filming their second movie, Help!, provisionally titled Beatles 2, in New Providence, Bahamas, Caribbean.Full article:
John Lennon : Help! was where we turned on to pot and we dropped drink, simple as that. I've always needed a drug to survive.The others too, but I always had more, more pills, more of everything
Richard Lester : I have no way of knowing the consumption of marijuana during the days of shooting Help! except to say that A Hard Day's Night was a film, by and large, that wasn't performed under the continuous influence of dope.
Richard Lester : Marc Behm (script writer) had no feeling for any English dialogue at all. Never lived in this country, never worked here. He was an American who worked in Paris, so it needed Anglicising.
Ringo, because his was the showy part - he was always the odd one out - so he was given characteristics that were more sympathetic. John I don't think was interested and didn't bother. Paul was too interested and tried too hard, and George was always the one that was forgotten. So he just did it and got on with it.
Victor Spinetti (actor) : Help! Was a straightjacket of a film for The Beatles. A Hard Day's Night was basically the truth about them coming to London, UK. In Help! They had to act out parts and weren't really happy about it. The first day of shooting was almost the end of the film and The Beatles. We were on a yacht, and I was the mad scientist trying to cut the ring off Ringo's finger. Ringo escapes me and dives off the yacht thirty feet into the sea. They had a bunch of people watching the area for sharks. So Dick Lester said, 'Let's do another shot.' They dried Ringo off, and he was shivering because it was out of season and bloody cold. We did another take and then another and, after the third take, Dick said, 'Let's do another.' Ringo said, 'Do we have to do it again?' Dick said, 'Well, I'd like another one. Why?' Ringo said, 'Because I can't swim.' Dick Lester went white and said, 'Why on earth didn't you tell me?' Ringo said, 'Well, I didn't like to say.'
Wendy Hanson (Brian Epstein's personal assistant) : We were in Nassau while the boys were filming Help! It had all got a bit dull, so Brian decided to go to New York for the weekend. Pan Am couldn't seat us together on the flight, which made Brian furious. There and then he wrote a letter to Pan Am, saying 'The Beatles will never use this airline again.' When we got to New York there were, I promise you, twenty Pan Am officials, bowing and scraping on the tarmac.
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Richard Lester : I have no way of knowing the consumption of marijuana during the days of shooting Help! except to say that A Hard Day's Night was a film, by and large, that wasn't performed under the continuous influence of dope.
Richard Lester : Marc Behm (script writer) had no feeling for any English dialogue at all. Never lived in this country, never worked here. He was an American who worked in Paris, so it needed Anglicising.
Ringo, because his was the showy part - he was always the odd one out - so he was given characteristics that were more sympathetic. John I don't think was interested and didn't bother. Paul was too interested and tried too hard, and George was always the one that was forgotten. So he just did it and got on with it.
Victor Spinetti (actor) : Help! Was a straightjacket of a film for The Beatles. A Hard Day's Night was basically the truth about them coming to London, UK. In Help! They had to act out parts and weren't really happy about it. The first day of shooting was almost the end of the film and The Beatles. We were on a yacht, and I was the mad scientist trying to cut the ring off Ringo's finger. Ringo escapes me and dives off the yacht thirty feet into the sea. They had a bunch of people watching the area for sharks. So Dick Lester said, 'Let's do another shot.' They dried Ringo off, and he was shivering because it was out of season and bloody cold. We did another take and then another and, after the third take, Dick said, 'Let's do another.' Ringo said, 'Do we have to do it again?' Dick said, 'Well, I'd like another one. Why?' Ringo said, 'Because I can't swim.' Dick Lester went white and said, 'Why on earth didn't you tell me?' Ringo said, 'Well, I didn't like to say.'
Wendy Hanson (Brian Epstein's personal assistant) : We were in Nassau while the boys were filming Help! It had all got a bit dull, so Brian decided to go to New York for the weekend. Pan Am couldn't seat us together on the flight, which made Brian furious. There and then he wrote a letter to Pan Am, saying 'The Beatles will never use this airline again.' When we got to New York there were, I promise you, twenty Pan Am officials, bowing and scraping on the tarmac.