Product Details

• Actors: Victor Spinetti
• Directors: David Lambert
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Wienerworld UK
• DVD Release Date: September 30, 2008
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001BWYTAS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #171,672 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Studio: Music Video Dist Release Date: 09/30/2008 Run time: 60 minutes

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Well done documentary - but will appeal mostly to TRUE Beatles fans, September 29, 2008

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Steven I. Ramm "Steve Ramm "Anything Phon... (Phila, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magical Mystery Tour Memories (DVD)

Magical Mystery Tour Memories

This newly produced hour long documentary on the making of the Beatle's third film - "Magical Mystery Tour" - can be highly recommended to TRUE Beatles fans who want ALL the inside info. (These are the folks who covet every CD made of news conference interviews with the Fab Four). For those who remember seeing the film once, or have never seen it at all, it's worth an hour to watch, though references made by the interviewees won't mean much.

Show on high quality video, the documentary is "hosted" by Victor Spinetti, the British actor who appeared in all three Beatles films. He is personable. With two or three exceptions, the persons telling their "memories" are individuals who happened to live in Cornwall when MMT was filmed in 1967. There is the man whose father owned the smal newsstand and the local policeman who had his 15 seconds of fame in the film. We learned how the Beatles were just "regular folks.".

The two "names" in this doc are musician Spencer Davis, who tells a few good short stories, and Neil Innes from the Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band, who actually sings a song. (The rest of the music in the film consists of instrument versions of MMT songs - none performed by the Beatles.)Oh yes, we get Paul McCartney's brother, Mike, - who is back to using the family name after many years as "Mike McGear), mostly slumming off of his sibling's reputation.

There are 11 short interviews on the DVD as "bonus material).

A nicely done package, but as I said above, really aimed at the Beatles completist.

Steve Ramm
"Anything Phonographic"

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sort of crap, December 24, 2010

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Brad Smith (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magical Mystery Tour Memories (DVD)

Less than one hour, this recent documentary has a few interviews with the little people such as fans and locals who recall the 1967 fiasco of Magical Mystery Tour, a Paul creation done in the immediate wake of Brian Epstein's death a month before. There is no actual Beatles music here, just muzak instrumentals of the soundtrack songs. There is a fair amount of cutting room stuff of the group on this fall 1967 jaunt around the south of England, but very little actual soundtrack material, aside from a couple of radio interviews done at the time. Spencer Davis and the guy from the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band reminisce a bit, as does Mike McCartney. Victor Spinetti narrates. Because of licensing, there is no footage or music from the rarely seen film itself, which makes this product of interest to Beatles completists only.