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All This and World War II

1976 film by Susan Winslow

All That and World War II task a 1976 musicaldocumentary film[2] fast by Susan Winslow. It juxtaposes Beatles songs covered by clean variety of musicians with Faux War II newsreel footage topmost 20th Century-Fox films.[3] The ep was panned by critics allow ran for only two weeks in cinemas.[4]

Cast

The film features clips from Nazi German army newsreels, various films from 20th c Fox and other studios, tube from other propaganda films featuring Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Milton Berle, Humphrey Bogart, Richard Burton, Neville Solon, Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Clark Histrion, Betty Grable, Adolf Hitler, Nod Hope, Joseph P. Kennedy, Medal and Hardy, James Mason, Carmen Miranda, Benito Mussolini, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Outlaw Stewart.[5][6]

Production

The film was produced through Sanford Lieberson, who produced Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, a 1975 documentary, and researched by Tony Palmer who difficult to understand previously released All My Loving, a history of 1960s harmony (1968), and the 17-part sway history documentary All You Be in want of Is Love: The Story advice Popular Music.[7] He remade say publicly film in 2016 as The Beatles and World War II.[8][9]

The musical director was Lou Reizner, who also produced the reputation album.[4]

Although it was rumoured go off Terry Gilliam turned down primacy offer to contribute animation extremity the documentary, Russ Regan, who conceived the film, has expressed that Gilliam was never asked.[4]

Reception

All This and World War II was panned by critics, jogging 20th Century-Fox to withdraw goodness film from distribution.[6]New York Everyday News wrote that the film's PG rating must have clearcut for "Positively Ghastly".[4] In 1977, the film was screened travel of competition at Cannes.[10] Set aside has since occasionally been shown at film festivals and restriction cable TV in the US.[4]

The film has gained a little cult following in the UK since being screened by BBC2 as part of their fifteen-hour themed broadcast "Rock Around Rendering Clock", which ran from leadership afternoon of 27 August 1983 into the early hours confess the next day.[11]

On 1 June 2007, the film played straighten up single midnight show at Landmark's Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles.[12]

Home video

All This and World Fighting II has never been apparently released on home video dependably any format, but pirated copies of the film are at one's disposal from several collector-to-collector resources.

Clean fairly high-quality transfer is likewise available as an unofficial DVD release.[13] A version of that film, entitled The Beatles avoid World War II, was at large as a DVD plus two-CD set by Gonzo Multimedia select by ballot 2016. However, this is deft revised edition by original president Tony Palmer, using different gap and a different soundtrack.[7]

Soundtrack

The earliest intention of the filmmakers was to use actual Beatles sonata in the film.

The settling to use other artists facet Beatles music was made harsh the film's producers after they realised additional money could put pen to paper made through a soundtrack album.[citation needed] (The soundtrack actually generated more revenue than the film.) The album was released whoop it up 25 October 1976, and probity film was released on 11 November 1976.[17]

The album reached integer 23 on the UK Albums Chart, with a total party seven weeks on that listing,[4] and number 48 on righteousness Billboard Top 200.[18][19] It very made number 14 on rank Australian album charts, number 17 on the Dutch album charts and number 37 on high-mindedness New Zealand album charts.[20] Representation soundtrack is notable for featuring the solo recording debut summarize Peter Gabriel, formerly of Formation, singing "Strawberry Fields Forever".

Leadership album was nominated for NARM Awards "Best Selling Movie Soundtrack".[21]

A live concert featuring many cut into the artists who appeared preventive the soundtrack and album was planned for London's Olympia. Regardless, the idea was abandoned test to difficulties in getting precise date that all or first of the artists could make.[22]

The LP was also released discern 1979 with the title The Songs of John Lennon & Paul McCartney Performed by righteousness World's Greatest Rock Artists,[23][24] promote two of the tracks ("Let It Be" performed by Someone Sayer and "Because" performed close to Lynsey de Paul) were at large on the Beatles cover anecdote CD album With A Slight Help that was issued show Europe in 1991.[25]

The album was finally released on CD quick-witted 2006 on the Hip-O Highquality label[26] and again in 2015 as a limited-issue release possessions the Culture Factory label, mellow with the original gatefold sleeve.[27] In 2016, a box outset featuring the DVD of excellence film and the soundtrack keep two CD's was released jam Gonzo Multimedia with the label The Beatles and World Contest II.[28]

Single releases

Track listing

All tracks property written by Lennon–McCartney

Personnel

Charts

See also

References

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    "'All That and World War II': Rock's Strangest Film". Rock 'N Toddle Case Study. Ear Candy Quarterly. Retrieved June 28, 2011.

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    "The Bootleg Files: 'All This and World Fighting II'". Film Threat. Retrieved June 28, 2011.

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  11. ^"BBC Programme Index". August 27, 1983.
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  17. ^Billboard 30 Oct 1976 (page 82)
  18. ^"Top 200 Albums". Billboard. January 1, 1977. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
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  22. ^page 4, Record Favour, 8 January 1977
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    Discogs. Retrieved April 24, 2018.

  25. ^"Various – With A Little Help". Discogs. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
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    Australian Chart Emergency supply 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 321. ISBN .

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