When The Beatles skied down an Austrian mountain during the filming of “Help!” they were the forerunners to the music videos more than a decade later. MTV officials told director Richard Lester as ...

There was a lot of hoopla this year over “The Sound of Music,” but that isn’t the only musical celebrating its 50th anniversary. The Beatles’ “Help!” opened on Aug. 25, 1965, and the general consensus ...

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr began filming the second Beatles movie on Feb. 23, 1965. The project was originally named Eight Arms to Hold You, an innocent but prophetic ...

The Beatles’ movie Help! just isn’t funny. The film tries to be strange but it doesn’t reach the heights of Monty Python, Douglas Adams, or other great British surrealist humor. In addition, none of ...

The Beatles were given the opportunity to make another film after the runaway commercial and critical success of their first one, A Hard Day's Night. Their second movie, Help!, had its world premiere ...

For the 50th anniversary of the world premiere of the Beatles second film, “Help!,” the South Pasadena Library will host a free screening on July 30 following a performance of Beatles songs by an ad ...

The cover of Help! shows The Beatles in blue coats, lifting their arms in the air. From a distance, a quick glance could lead one to think they are spelling “help” with their arms — Paul McCartney ...