Plot

The Beatles evade a horde of followers whereas boarding a prepare for London. En route, they meet Paul’s trouble-making grandfather for the primary time; he turns into a lot bother that Paul has him locked up within the brake coach’s baggage room, however he and the others quickly be a part of him inside. They play playing cards and entertain some schoolgirls earlier than arriving on the London station, the place they’re shortly pushed to a lodge and start to really feel cooped up. Their supervisor Norm duties them with answering all their fan mail, however they sneak out to get together, solely to be caught by Norm and brought again. They then discover out that the grandfather went to a playing membership utilizing an invite despatched to Ringo, and, after a short dust-up, they bring about him again to the lodge.

The following day, they arrive at a TV studio for a efficiency. After the preliminary rehearsal, the producer thinks they’re out to sabotage his profession (because of one thing the grandfather mentioned). There’s a press convention, the place The Beatles are bored by the mundane questioning. They go away by means of a fireplace escape and cavort in a discipline till pressured off by the proprietor. Again within the studios, they’re separated when a girl named Millie acknowledges John however can’t recall who he’s. George is lured right into a trendmonger’s workplace to audition for an advert with a well-liked feminine mannequin. The boys all return to rehearse a second music, and after a fast journey to make-up, easily undergo a 3rd and earn a break.

With an hour earlier than the ultimate run-through, Ringo is pressured to chaperone Paul’s grandfather and takes him to the canteen for tea whereas he reads a e-book. The grandfather manipulates Ringo into going outdoors to expertise life reasonably than studying books, passing a shocked John and Paul on the best way out. He tries to have a quiet drink in a pub, takes photos, walks alongside the river and rides a bicycle alongside a railway station platform.^[6] Alongside the best way, he spends a while with a child who’s skipping faculty along with his mates. After practically injuring a parrot and unintentionally inflicting a girl to fall right into a newly dug gap, Ringo is apprehended by a policeman as a troublemaker and brought to a police station, the place Paul’s grandfather joins him shortly after for making an attempt to promote Beatles photographs with cast signatures. The grandfather makes a break for it, runs again to the studio and tells the others about Ringo. Norm sends John, Paul and George to retrieve him. Whereas doing so, the boys wind up in a Keystone Cops-style foot chase earlier than arriving again on the studio with Ringo, with solely minutes to spare earlier than airtime. The televised live performance goes on as deliberate, after which The Beatles are whisked away to a different efficiency by way of helicopter.

Forged

Songs

The movie’s credit state that each one songs are composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Nevertheless, additionally heard within the movie is a portion of “Do not Trouble Me”, a George Harrison composition. The instrumentals are recorded by the George Martin Orchestra.

• “A Laborious Day’s Night time” (opening credit)
• “I Ought to Have Recognized Higher”
• “I Wanna Be Your Man” (pattern)
• “Do not Trouble Me” (Harrison) (pattern)
• “All My Loving” (pattern)
• “If I Fell”
• “Cannot Purchase Me Love”
• “And I Love Her”
• “I am Pleased Simply to Dance with You”
• “Ringo’s Theme (This Boy)” (instrumental)
• “A Laborious Day’s Night time” (pattern, instrumental)
• “Cannot Purchase Me Love” (reprise)
• “Inform Me Why”
• “If I Fell” (reprise)
• “I Ought to Have Recognized Higher” (reprise)
• “She Loves You”
• “A Laborious Day’s Night time” (reprise; closing credit)

Along with the soundtrack album, an EP (in mono) of songs from the movie titled Extracts From The Movie A Laborious Day’s Night time was launched by Parlophone on 6 November 1964, having the next tracks:^[7]

• Facet A

1. “I Ought to Have Recognized Higher”
2. “If I Fell”

• Facet B

1. “Inform Me Why”
2. “And I Love Her”

Tune notes

• “I will Cry As an alternative” was amongst a number of songs thought of for the movie however in the end not included both as an on-camera efficiency or for utilization as an audio-only observe. It was for use throughout the “escape/fireplace escape” sequence of the movie, however in the end director Richard Lester vetoed it due to its downbeat lyrics and it was changed for that scene by “Cannot Purchase Me Love”.^[8] Its standing as an early contender for inclusion led to the music being included on the US soundtrack album.^[9]
• Within the 1982 US theatrical reissue of the movie by Common Photos, beneath licence from Walter Shenson, the music “I will Cry As an alternative” was used because the audio observe for a prologue sequence to the movie which consisted of stills from the movie and publicity images as a tribute to Lennon consisting of a “Swingin'” early to mid-Nineteen Sixties-style collage of photographs of The Beatles in 1964 across the time they have been capturing the movie. The prologue was assembled with out the involvement or data of the movie’s director Richard Lester, who subsequently expressed his disapproval of the addition.^{[10]: pp.119–120} The prologue was not included on the 2000 restoration of the movie.^[11][12]
• The music “You Cannot Do That” was filmed as a part of the movie’s TV live performance sequence, however was not included within the last lower of the movie. At some extent earlier than a call had been made to excise the music from the movie, footage of that efficiency had been despatched by the filmmakers and Brian Epstein to be aired on The Ed Sullivan Present as a tease to advertise the forthcoming launch of the movie. The clip aired on the Sullivan present on Sunday, 24 Might 1964 together with an interview with The Beatles specifically filmed by Sullivan in London.^[13] An extract of the footage of the music efficiency was included within the 1994 documentary The Making of “A Laborious Day’s Night time”.^[14]
• The music “I Name Your Title” was lower from the movie for unknown causes.^[10]: p.55

Screenplay

The screenplay was written by Alun Owen, who was chosen as a result of The Beatles have been acquainted with his play No Trams to Lime Avenue, and he had proven a flair for Liverpudlian dialogue. McCartney commented, “Alun hung round with us and was cautious to try to put phrases in our mouths that he would possibly’ve heard us communicate, so I assumed he did an excellent script.”^[15] Owen spent a number of days with the group, who advised him their lives have been like “a prepare and a room and a automotive and a room and a room and a room”; the character of Paul’s grandfather refers to this within the dialogue.^[16] Owen wrote the script from the point of view that The Beatles had turn out to be prisoners of their very own fame, their schedule of performances and studio work having turn out to be punishing.

The script feedback cheekily on The Beatles’ fame. As an illustration, at one level a fan, performed by Anna Quayle, apparently recognises John Lennon, although she doesn’t truly point out Lennon’s title, saying solely “you might be…”. He demurs, saying his face will not be fairly proper for “him”, initiating a surreal dialogue ending with the fan, after she places on her glasses, agreeing that Lennon does not “seem like him in any respect”, and Lennon saying to himself that “she seems to be extra like him than I do”.^[16] Different dialogue is derived from precise interviews with The Beatles. When Ringo is requested if he is a mod or a rocker, he replies: “Uh, no, I am a mocker”,^[17] a line derived from a joke he made on the TV present Prepared Regular Go!.^[18][19] The frequent reference to McCartney’s grandfather (Wilfrid Brambell) as a “clear outdated man” units up a distinction with the inventory description of Brambell’s character, Albert Steptoe in Steptoe and Son, as a “soiled outdated man”.^[20]

Audiences additionally responded to The Beatles’ brash social impudence. Director Richard Lester mentioned, “The final intention of the movie was to current what was apparently changing into a social phenomenon on this nation. Anarchy is simply too sturdy a phrase, however the high quality of confidence that the boys exuded! Confidence that they may gown as they appreciated, communicate as they appreciated, discuss to the Queen as they appreciated, discuss to the individuals on the prepare who ‘fought the struggle for them’ as they appreciated. … [Everything was] nonetheless based mostly on privilege—privilege by education, privilege by delivery, privilege by accent, privilege by speech. The Beatles have been the primary individuals to assault this… they mentioned if you would like one thing, do it. You are able to do it. Overlook all this speak about expertise or capacity or cash or speech. Simply do it.”^[21]

Even if the unique working titles of the movie have been first The Beatles after which Beatlemania, the group’s title is rarely spoken within the movie^[22]—it’s, nevertheless, seen on Ringo’s drum package, on the stage lighting, and on the helicopter within the last scene. The tv efficiency scene additionally incorporates a visible pun on the group’s title, with photographs of beetles seen on the wall behind the dancers.

Manufacturing

The movie was shot for United Artists (UA) utilizing a cinéma vérité model in black-and-white. The movie was meant to be launched in July 1964, and because it was already March when Lester received to filming, the whole movie needed to be produced over a interval of sixteen weeks. It had a low price range for its time of £200,000 ($500,000) (equal to £4,143,575 in 2020) and filming was completed in beneath seven weeks, leaving the remainder of the time for post-production.^[23] At first, the movie itself was one thing of a secondary consideration to UA, whose major curiosity was in having the ability to launch the soundtrack album in america earlier than Capitol Data (the American EMI affiliate who had first shot at releasing Beatles music within the States) received round to issuing their materials; within the phrases of Bud Ornstein, the European head of manufacturing for United Artists: “Our file division desires to get the soundtrack album to distribute within the States, and what we lose on the movie we’ll get again on this disc.”^[8] As movie historian Stephen Glynn put it, A Laborious Day’s Night time was meant as “a low-budget exploitation movie to take advantage of the most recent transient musical craze for all it was price.”^[24]

Not like most productions, it was filmed in close to sequential order, as said by Lennon in 1964.^[25] Filming started on 2 March 1964 at Marylebone station in London (generally misidentified as Paddington). The Beatles had joined the actors’ union, Fairness, solely that morning.^[7] The primary week of filming was on a prepare travelling between London and Minehead.^[26] On 10 March, scenes with Ringo have been shot on the Turk’s Head pub in Twickenham, and over the next week varied inside scenes have been filmed at Twickenham Studios. From 23 to 30 March, filming moved to the Scala Theatre,^[27] and on 31 March, live performance footage was shot there, though the group mimed to backing tracks.^[7] On the 17 March and the 17 April scenes have been shot on the Les Ambassadeurs Membership in Mayfair.^[28] The “Cannot Purchase Me Love” section, which featured inventive digicam work and the band working and leaping round in a discipline was shot on 23 April 1964 at Thornbury Taking part in Fields, Isleworth, Middlesex.^[7] The ultimate scene was filmed the next day in West Ealing, London, the place Ringo obligingly drops his coat over puddles for a girl to step on, solely to find that the ultimate puddle is definitely a big gap within the highway.^[29]

Earlier than A Laborious Day’s Night time was launched in America, a United Artists govt requested Lester to dub the voices of the group with mid-Atlantic accents. McCartney angrily replied, “Look, if we will perceive a fucking cowboy speaking Texan, they will perceive us speaking Liverpool.”^[30] Lester subsequently directed The Beatles’ 1965 movie, Assist!

The movie’s costumes—apart from these of The Beatles themselves—have been designed by Julie Harris.^[31] The garments of The Beatles have been credited to Dougie Millings & Son.

Casting

Irish actor Wilfrid Brambell, who performed Paul McCartney’s fictional grandfather John McCartney, was already well-known to British tv audiences as co-star of the British sitcom Steptoe and Son. The recurring joke that he was very “clear” displays a distinction to his sitcom function, the place he was at all times known as a “soiled outdated man”. In different roles, Norman Rossington performed The Beatles’ supervisor Norm, John Junkin performed the group’s highway supervisor Shake, and Victor Spinetti performed the tv director. Brian Epstein, the group’s actual supervisor, had an uncredited bit half.^[32]

The supporting solid included Richard Vernon because the “metropolis gent” on the prepare and Lionel Blair as a featured dancer. There have been additionally varied cameos. John Bluthal performed a automotive thief and an uncredited Derek Nimmo appeared as magician Leslie Jackson. David Janson (billed as David Jaxon right here) performed the small boy met by Ringo on his “walkabout”. Rooney Massara, who went on to compete within the 1972 Munich Olympics, was the sculler within the river within the “walkabout” scene by the river at Kew (uncredited). Kenneth Haigh appeared as an promoting govt who errors George for a “new phenomenon.” David Langton additionally made a cameo look as an actor within the dressing room scene.

Mal Evans, one of many Beatles’ highway managers, additionally seems briefly within the movie—transferring an upright bass by means of a good hallway as Lennon talks with the lady who errors him for another person.

George Harrison met his wife-to-be, Patricia Boyd, on the set when she made a short (uncredited) look as one of many schoolgirls on the prepare. His preliminary overtures to her have been spurned as a result of she had a boyfriend on the time, however he continued and so they have been married inside 18 months.^[33] The lady with Boyd within the eating automotive scene is Prudence Bury.^[34] Phil Collins, later a member of the band Genesis, was an uncredited schoolboy additional within the live performance viewers and would subsequently go on to be a really profitable musician in his personal proper.^[35][36]
Taking part in the buxom lady with Paul’s grandfather within the on line casino scene was standard British Nineteen Sixties pinup mannequin Margaret Nolan (aka Vicky Kennedy), who additionally appeared as “Dink”, the golden lady throughout the opening credit of the James Bond movie Goldfinger, later that very same 12 months.^[37]

Lower for BBFC

The movie needed to be edited barely to acquire the U certificates for British cinemas. The phrase “get knotted” (allegedly in reel 7 of the unique submission) was judged inappropriate for a U movie and needed to be eliminated.^[38] When the movie was submitted for launch on VHS, the British Board of Movie Censors (BBFC) couldn’t find the phrase and presumed that the clip was “pre-cut”, however said that the phrase was not of any concern.^[39] The BBFC famous quite a few innuendos and one refined reference to cocaine, however concluded that it was nonetheless inside the “pure class” for a U certificates.^[39]

Reception

The movie premiered on the Pavilion Theatre in London on 6 July 1964—the eve of Ringo Starr’s twenty fourth birthday—and the soundtrack was launched 4 days later.^[40] A Laborious Day’s Night time set information on the London Pavilion by grossing over $20,000 within the first week, in the end changing into so standard that greater than 1,600 prints have been in circulation concurrently.^[41]

Vital response

Evaluations of the movie have been largely optimistic; one oft-quoted evaluation was offered by Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice, labeling A Laborious Day’s Night time “the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals.”^[42] When The Village Voice printed the outcomes of its first annual movie ballot, A Laborious Day’s Night time positioned second behind Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.^[43] On Rotten Tomatoes the movie holds an approval ranking of 98{ae90547d17d4d74b17007ee836a04674fd006933c139011dc78eb03c100070a7} based mostly on 109 evaluations, with a median ranking of 8.5/10. The web site’s critics consensus reads: “A Laborious Day’s Night time, regardless of its age, remains to be a delight to look at and has confirmed itself to be a rock-and-roll film traditional.”^[44] It’s quantity 4 on Rotten Tomatoes’ listing of the High Ten Musicals and Performing Arts movies.^[45] On Metacritic, it has a weighted common rating of 96 out of 100, based mostly on 24 critics, indicating “common acclaim”.^[46]

Time journal known as the movie “One of many smoothest, freshest, funniest movies ever made for functions of exploitation.”^[47] Movie critic Roger Ebert described the movie as “one of many nice life-affirming landmarks of the flicks”, and added it to his listing of The Nice Films.^[48] In 2004, Complete Movie journal named A Laborious Day’s Night time the forty second biggest British movie of all time. In 2005, Time.com named it one of many 100 greatest movies of the final 80 years.^[3] Leslie Halliwell gave the movie his highest ranking, 4 stars, the one British movie of 1964 to realize that accolade.^[4]

The New York Occasions movie critic Bosley Crowther famous the movie was a refined satire on Beatlemania and The Beatles themselves. The Beatles are portrayed as likeable younger lads who’re consistently amazed on the consideration they obtain and who need nothing greater than a bit of peace and quiet; nevertheless, they should take care of screaming crowds, journalists who ask nonsensical questions, and authority figures who consistently look down upon them.^[49] Actually, their greatest downside is McCartney’s aged, however “clear” grandfather, performed by Wilfrid Brambell.^[50] The New Yorker critic Brendan Gill wrote: “Although I do not faux to know what makes these 4 reasonably odd-looking boys so fascinating to so many scores of thousands and thousands of individuals, I admit that I really feel a sure senseless pleasure stealing over me as they caper about uttering sounds.”^[51]

A Laborious Day’s Night time was nominated for 2 Academy Awards: for Finest Screenplay (Alun Owen), and Finest Rating (Adaptation) (George Martin).^[52]

By 1971, the movie was estimated to have earned $11 million worldwide (equal to $70,293,344 in 2020).^[2]

Affect

British critic Leslie Halliwell states the movie’s affect as “it led on to all of the kaleidoscopic swinging London spy thrillers and comedies of the later sixties”.^[4] Particularly, the visuals and storyline are credited with inspiring The Monkees’ tv collection.^[53] The “Cannot Purchase Me Love” section borrowed stylistically from Richard Lester’s earlier The Working Leaping & Standing Nonetheless Movie, and it’s this section, particularly utilizing the up to date strategy of chopping the pictures to the beat of the music, which has been cited as a precursor of recent music movies.^{[54][55][56][57][58]} Roger Ebert goes even additional, crediting Lester for a extra pervasive affect, even developing “a brand new grammar”: “he influenced many different movies. At the moment once we watch TV and see fast chopping, hand-held cameras, interviews performed on the run with transferring targets, shortly intercut snatches of dialogue, music beneath documentary motion and all the opposite logos of the trendy model, we’re wanting on the youngsters of A Laborious Day’s Night time“.^[48] Movie theorist James Monroe writes, “The vigorous Nineteen Sixties movies of Richard Lester—particularly his Musicals A Laborious Day’s Night time (1964), Assist! (1965), and A Humorous Factor Occurred on the Strategy to the Discussion board (1966)—popularized leap cuts, fast and ‘ungrammatical’ chopping. Over time, his brash editorial model turned a norm, now celebrated each evening world wide in tons of of music movies on MTV and in numerous commercials.”^[59] A Laborious Day’s Night time additionally impressed a 1965 movie that includes Gerry and the Pacemakers, entitled Ferry Cross the Mersey.^[60][61] In an interview for the DVD re-release of A Laborious Day’s Night time, Lester mentioned he had been labelled the daddy of MTV and had jokingly responded by asking for a paternity check.

Title

The movie’s title originated from one thing mentioned by Ringo Starr, who described it this fashion in an interview with disc jockey Dave Hull in 1964: “We went to do a job, and we might labored all day and we occurred to work all evening. I got here up nonetheless considering it was day I suppose, and I mentioned, ‘It has been a tough day …’ and I regarded round and noticed it was darkish so I mentioned, ‘… evening!’ So we got here to A Laborious Day’s Night time.”^[62]

In keeping with Lennon in a 1980 interview with Playboy journal: “I used to be going house within the automotive, and Dick Lester advised the title, ‘Laborious Day’s Night time’ from one thing Ringo had mentioned. I had used it in In His Personal Write, however it was an informal comment by Ringo. You already know, a kind of malapropisms. A Ringo-ism, the place he mentioned it to not be humorous… simply mentioned it. So Dick Lester mentioned, ‘We’re going to use that title.'”^[63]

In a 1994 interview for The Beatles Anthology, nevertheless, McCartney disagreed with Lennon’s recollections, recalling that it was The Beatles, and never Lester, who had provide you with the thought of utilizing Starr’s verbal misstep: “The title was Ringo’s. We might nearly completed making the movie, and this enjoyable bit arrived that we would not identified about earlier than, which was naming the movie. So we have been sitting round at Twickenham studios having a bit of brain-storming session … and we mentioned, ‘Nicely, there was one thing Ringo mentioned the opposite day.’ Ringo would do these little malapropisms, he would say issues barely fallacious, like individuals do, however his have been at all times great, very lyrical … they have been kind of magic though he was simply getting it fallacious. And he mentioned after a live performance, ‘Phew, it has been a tough day’s evening.'”^[64]

Yet one more model of occasions appeared in 1996; producer Walter Shenson mentioned that Lennon had described to him a few of Starr’s funnier gaffes, together with “a tough day’s evening”, whereupon Shenson instantly determined that that was going to be the title of the movie.^[65]

No matter which of those origin tales is the true one, the unique tentative title for the movie had been “Beatlemania” and when the brand new title was agreed upon, it turned crucial to write down and shortly file a brand new title music, which was accomplished on 16 April, simply eight days earlier than filming was completed.^[8] John Lennon wrote the music in a single evening, (credited to Lennon-McCartney) basing the lyrics on a birthday card despatched to his younger son Julian,^[66] and it went on to win a Grammy for Finest Efficiency by a Vocal Group.^{[10]: p.xii}

The movie was titled Yeah Yeah Yeah in Germany and Sweden, Tutti Per Uno (All for One) in Italy, Quatre garçons dans le vent (4 Boys within the Wind^[b]) in France^[67] Yeah! Yeah! Tässä tulemme! (Yeah! Yeah! Right here We Come!) in Finland and Os Reis do Iê-Iê-Iê (The Kings of Yeah-yeah-yeah) in Brazil.

Novelisation

In 1964, Pan Books printed a novelisation of the movie by writer John Burke, described as “based mostly on the unique screenplay by Alun Owen”. The e-book was priced at two shillings and sixpence and contained an 8-page part of images from the movie. It’s the first e-book within the English language to have the phrase ‘grotty’ in print.^[68][69]

Launch historical past

• 1964: A Laborious Day’s Night time was launched by United Artists.
• 1967: The movie premiered on American tv on the NBC community on 24 October; the same old Peacock introduction, which preceded all NBC shade broadcasts of the period, was changed by a humorous black-and-white animated cartoon penguin, with cartoon representations of The Beatles leaping out of its abdomen, as A Laborious Day’s Night time was not shot in shade;^[70][71]
• 1970: The movie premiered on UK tv on BBC1 on 28 December. John Lennon watched the printed at house and was impressed to write down the music “I am the Biggest”, which was later recorded by Ringo Starr on his 1973 album Ringo.^[72]
• 1979: Rights to the movie have been transferred to its producer, Walter Shenson;
• 1982: Common Photos, beneath license from Shenson, reissued the movie in theaters. This launch included a prologue consisting of manufacturing stills set to the music “I will Cry As an alternative”, which might stay on subsequent house video editions till 2000;
• 1984: MPI House Video, beneath license from Shenson, first launched A Laborious Day’s Night time on house video within the VHS, Betamax, CED Videodisc, and Laserdisc codecs, which all included the prologue.^[73]
  • The movie was additionally launched by Janus Movies as a part of The Criterion Assortment in each a single-disc CLV and a DualDisc CAV Laserdisc format. The extra options part on the CAV version embrace the unique theatrical trailer, an interview with Richard Lester, and his The Working Leaping & Standing Nonetheless Movie.^[74]
  • There have been notable pitch issues with the songs on this model, exactly one semitone decrease than the unique recordings. This was fastened in subsequent releases.
• 1993: Voyager Firm produced a CD-ROM for Mac and PC platforms with video in QuickTime 1 format, containing most of Criterion’s components, together with the unique script.^[75]
• 1997: MPI House Video launched the primary DVD version. It incorporates the 1982 prologue and trailer, newsreels, an interview with Richard Lester, and The Working Leaping & Standing Nonetheless Movie.
• 2000: Miramax Movies reissued the movie in theatres in america after which as a collector’s version DVD two years later, in addition to its last difficulty within the VHS format. The movie had been transferred from the restored 35 mm unfavorable and introduced in 1.66:1 Widescreen. The prologue that Common added in 1982 is absent on the Miramax releases.^[76]
  • Along with the unique movie, the DVD version contained a bonus disc with over 7 hours of further materials together with interviews with solid and crew members and Beatles associates. The DVD was produced by Beatles historian and producer Martin Lewis, a longtime pal of Walter Shenson.^[76]
• 2009: The movie was launched on Blu-ray Disc in Canada; nevertheless, the disc is area free and can play in any Blu-ray machine. It incorporates many of the 2000 DVD bonus options.
• 2010: Miramax was offered by Disney to Filmyard Holdings, LLC, and the house video sub-licence transferred to Lionsgate, though no U.S. Blu-ray launch date had been introduced.
• 2011: A brand new Blu-ray version was launched in Mexico, this model has Spanish subtitles.
• 2014: Janus Movies acquired the rights to the movie from Miramax (on behalf of the Shenson Property, managed by Bruce A. Karsh) and introduced a home video re-release by way of The Criterion Assortment on 24 June 2014.^[77] This dual-format version (which contains the primary ever U.S. difficulty on Blu-ray) incorporates varied dietary supplements from all earlier video re-issues. This marks the return of this movie to Criterion for the primary time in twenty years. The movie was additionally launched in theaters throughout the U.S. and within the UK (by Metrodome within the latter area)^[78] on 4 July 2014. On 6 July 2014, the movie was proven in re-mastered HD on BBC 4 within the UK to mark its fiftieth anniversary. Criterion’s DVD/Blu-ray launch of A Laborious Day’s Night time was duplicated by Umbrella Leisure in Australia (launched 2 July)^[79] and Second Sight Movies within the UK (launched 21 July).^[80]
• 2015: On 15 December, Criterion re-released their Blu-ray as a part of The Rock Field, a group of rock music-related movies that additionally contains Monterey Pop (1968), Gimme Shelter (1970) and Quadrophenia (1979).^[81]
• 2022: On 11 August 2021, Criterion introduced their first 4K Extremely HD releases, a six-film slate, will embrace A Laborious Day’s Night time. Criterion point out every title will likely be accessible in a 4K UHD+Blu-ray combo pack together with a 4K UHD disc of the function movie in addition to the movie and particular options on the companion Blu-ray. ^[82] A Laborious’s Day Night time is to be launched on 18 January 2022. ^[83]

fortieth anniversary solid and crew reunion screening

On 6 July 2004, the fortieth anniversary of the movie’s world premiere, a personal solid and crew reunion screening was hosted in London by DVD producer Martin Lewis. The screening was attended by McCartney, actors Victor Spinetti, John Junkin, David Janson and lots of crew members. In media interviews on the occasion, McCartney disclosed that whereas he had seen the movie many instances on video, he had not seen the movie on the “large display” since its 1964 premiere.^[84]

See additionally

• 1964 in movie

Notes