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Apple
Corps Ltd have announced the eagerly anticipated DVD release
of The Beatles’ second feature film Help! on October
30th, which will be distributed by EMI Music.
Directed
by Richard Lester, who also directed the band’s debut
feature film A Hard Days Night, Help! made its theatrical
debut in 1965. The story follows The Beatles as they become
passive recipients of an outside plot that revolves around
Ringo's possession of a sacrificial ring, which he cannot
remove from his finger. As a result, he and his bandmates
John, Paul and George are chased from London to the Austrian
Alps and the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientist
and the London police.
In
addition to starring the Beatles, Help! has a witty
script and features 7 classic Beatles tracks, including:
- ‘Help!’
- ‘You're
Going To Lose That Girl’
- ‘You've
Got To Hide Your Love Away’
- ‘Ticket
To Ride’
- ‘I
Need You’
- ‘The
Night Before’
- ‘Another
Girl’
The
DVD will be a two-disc set. Disc 1 will feature the original
film digitally restored with a newly created 5.1 soundtrack,
while Disc 2 contains an hour of extra features, including:
- The
Beatles in Help! - 30 minute documentary about the
making of the film with Richard Lester, the cast and crew.
Includes exclusive behind the scenes footage of The Beatles
on set.
- A
Missing Scene - Featuring Wendy Richard
- The
Restoration of Help! - An in depth look at the restoration
process.
- Memories
of Help! - The cast and crew reminisce
- Theatrical
Trailers - 2 US trailers and 1 Spanish trailer.
- 1965
US Radio Spots - Hidden in disc menus.
There
will be two editions of the DVD - a standard digipack and
a deluxe boxed set that will contain a reproduction of Richard
Lester's original annotated script, eight lobby cards and
a poster, plus a 60-page book with rarely seen photographs
and production notes from the movie. Both the deluxe book
and the standard booklet feature an introduction by Richard
Lester and an appreciation by Martin Scorsese.
Watch
the DVD trailer: http://emicat.edgeboss.net/wmedia/emicat/beatles/help_trailer_us.wvx
Story
by Ryan Cracknell
© Movie Views, September 6, 2007.
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