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Released
1964 · FILM

A Hard Day's Night

A frantic 36‑hour sprint sees four rising rock stars racing against relentless fans, media frenzy and absurd mishaps to make it onto a live television performance.

“The Beatles, starring in their first full-length, hilarious, action-packed film!”

Directed by
Richard Lester
Written by
Alun Owen
Rated
MPA · G
Color
Black & White
Runtime
88 min
ComedyMusical
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element,

Credits

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 50+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John JympsonShot by Gilbert Taylor

Box Office

1964 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 20× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$11.0M

Budget$560K
Worldwide gross$11.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

2014136 theaters
$801K($1.1M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • The Beatles - A Hard Day's Nightde
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahde
  • Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!de
  • Quatre Garçons dans le ventfr
  • Tutti per unoit

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