A Hard Day’s Night

Wonderful Life

Just for You

Swinging UK

UK Swings Again

Rhythm ’n’ Greens

Mods and Rockers

Every Day’s a Holiday

Ballad in Blue

Ferry Cross the Mersey

The Rise and Fall of Nellie Brown

June

‘For sheer youth and vitality this film knocks spots off Richard’s Wonderful Life. It doesn’t advance the technique of film-making, but it should be an object lesson to the film world in what makes for genuine personality.’ For New Musical Express,

The MFB acclaimed it as ‘streets ahead in imagination compared to other films about pop songs and singers’. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith’s tempered enthusiasm decided that the film,

On this occasion, director Richard Lester confronts his young stars with a considerable number of old codgers, fronted by Wilfrid Brambell, recently propelled to television stardom via the BBC’s Steptoe and Son, as Grandfather. Lester seems to delight in employing senior Equity members. These include the wonderful Edward (Eddie) Malin, the small-part player of many films perhaps best remembered as the steward who consoles a child during the sinking of the Titanic in Roy Baker’s A Night to Remember, and as the silent Walter in the television comedy series Nearest and Dearest, with Hylda Baker forever solicitous as to his well-being (‘Has he been?’). In sharp contrast to the apparently carefree attitudes of The Beatles, Alun Owen’s inventive screenplay has roles for other traditionally stolid older British establishment types: Deryck Guyler, Michael Trubshawe, and Richard Vernon.