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Beatles at the Movies: Stories and Photographs From Behind the Scenes at All Five Films MAde by Unpub..

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I thought this was an interesting book. It helps greatly that the author got Paul McCartney's cooperation, and so there are a lot of quotes of Paul's that you won't find anywhere else. I thought I knew everything there was to know about the Beatles, but did not know, until this book, that there was talk of them making Joe Orton's play LOOT into a film. Of course, when the Beatles saw that the characters were gay, they said no. As Paul says, "We didn't have anything against it being a gay film, but we were four very butch guys, and it just didn't make sense. Mick Jagger's a bit more that way, so someone like him would be more suited to it." Incidentally, (as Paul said in his authorized biography MANY YEARS FROM NOW), Paul was one of the backers of LOOT when it was a play. LOOT was a hit in England, but flopped when it played on Broadway....A good book for any Beatles fan.

This book give a great account of everyone of the Beatles in film and the stories of the movies they made and those they almost made. I would recommend this book for any Beatle's fan or anyone who loves a great film

Every year, I get Beatles books, CDs and other gifts that revolve around the Beatles as Christmas gifts. My family knows to do this automatically and even though I do make out a list, sometimes they will find something I didn't list and surprise me with.

Beatles At The Movies by Roy Carr was one of those books. Now, Roy's book is of double interest to me in that my work revolves around working in the film and television production industry so any book that delves into that world is also of great attraction.

In short, this book is now over ten years old and most or all of it's content is included in other newer, more fresh looks at The Beatles. But don't let that put you off. This is a GREAT book about The Beatles and their involvement in film.

Carr is an award winning author and it shows. His writing is interesting, humorous and insightful. The book itself is 176 pages of photos of The Beatles, movie photo cards, stills from their films, and is lavishly illustrated on thick stock paper. There are over 200 photos included in the book, many full page size and 100 of which had not been seen until the original publishing date.

Not only does Carr walk you through the films, but he chronicles the movies, their music and the albums the songs appear on, something that's been done before and since, but nice to have right there to help tie it all together with.

So after all this time, is it worth adding this book to your Beatles collection? I would say definitely. It won't reveal any new information to you today if you've kept up with all the other books that are out there. But most of us haven't read the over 500 books that have been published on The Beatles so I'm sure many will pick up on things they didn't know before. And if for nothing else, it's a fine made book with lots of great photographs.

Find it at a bargain price, and you'll be even more of a happy Beatles fan!

Sorry, but this book was a disappointment for me. It should have been published in the seventies, not today, when so much information about the Beatles' movies has been made available on various media. Firstly, anyone can buy any of these movies on video. Also, there is a lot more about the making of the Beatles' movies on Mark Lewinson's "The Beatles Chronicle", or even on the special laserdisc (or DVD) editions of "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help", which include theatrical trailers, radio spots, behind the scenes, still pictures of scenes which were not included on the final edit and much more. Diehard fans may think this book is worthwhile for the allegedly "previously unpublished" pictures. If that is the case, fine. But even the pictures disappointed me: considering the shallowness of the text, this could have been compensated by the inclusion of a lot more stills from the movies. This book will surely look nice on your bookshelf, like an oversized movie souvenir, but the information it contains is mostly superficial.

This book was fab. It had great pictures, unknown movies, and everything. I mean, did you know the Beatles were going to do a western movie!! It has great unknown facts, and HOTTTTT pictures of the fab four. I TOTALLY recomend it. I love it and ALWAYS read it over and over and over and over and over.....