Help! is a 1965 film starring The Beatles and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear and Patrick Cargill. The soundtrack was released as an album, also called Help!.
Inspiration
The Beatles said the film was inspired by the Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup; it was also directly satirical of the James Bond series of films. At the time of the original release of Help!, its distributor, United Artists, also held the rights to the Bond series (now owned by UA sister studio MGM.)
Songs
- “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”
- “She’s A Woman” (heard in the background on a tape machine)
- “A Hard Day’s Night” (played by Indian band and as an instrumental)
- “I’m Happy Just to Dance with You” (played by a band during the bike-riding scene)
- “You Can’t Do That” (played as an instrumental during the Austrian Alps sequence)