The SECOND BEST movie EVER made!!!! Keep going if you'd like to find out the best! (hint: starts with 'h' and was made in 1965...)

A Hard Day's Night (1964) is a musical comedy, directed by Richard Lester, and produced by Walter Shenson, with Denis O'Dell, later director of Apple Films. The screenplay is written by Alun Owen, Liverpudlian screenwriter known for his vivid renderings of Liverpool slang.

The film stars John, Paul, George and Ringo, and co-stars Wilfrid Bramble, the only established actor involved, star of the U.K. television sitcom Steptoe and Son. Supporting actors include Victor Spinetti as an agitated TV director, Norman Rossington as Norm the roadie (based on Neil Aspinall), John Junkin as roadie Shake (based on Mal Evans). Distributed by United Artists. 87 minutes.

The music, a batch of new songs composed specifically for the film, was among the group's best to date: the title song (the first John had written on assignment), "Tell Me Why", "And I Love Her", "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You," "Can't Buy Me Love", "I Should Have Known Better", and "If I Fell".

Love intrest was left out of the script intentionally, in order to avoid upsetting female fans. In real life, George met his future wife, actress Patti Boyd, on the set. An incedental flub by Ringo provided the movie's title. Emerging from Abbey Road Studios after a particularly long recording session, he commented "It's been a hard day." Then noticing the darkened sky, the drummer added "'s night!" John appropriated the phrase for the story "Sad Michael," which appeared in his first book, In His Own Write.

John later lamented the imposition of Alun Owen's script on the group's spontainately, as well as the sterotypical treatment of their individual personalities. But ultimatly he was more positive about A Hard Day's Night than any of the group's later films. "It was a good projection of one facade of us, which was on tour," he concluded.