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Flick James
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« on: August 25, 2011, 06:20:47 PM »



This might be among the hardest bad movies to find.

I was looking up the Wikipedia article for the ghastly 1978 film Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the worst musical movies of all time. The article referred me to All This and World War II, a musical documentary released in 1976 that placed covered versions of Beatles songs over footage of World War II, done in attempted story-telling fashion. The write-up suggests that this film is virtually intolerable to watch, yet, just the fact that it exists and is virtually impossible to find except in bootleg form makes me want to see it. But I would probably regret the experience.

Upon release, this film was supposedly ravaged so severely by critics and ignored by theatre-goers that it was pulled within two weeks and put into storage. The film has never been released on either VHS or DVD. The film was shown once since it’s original release at a midnight showing at the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles in 2007.

This film appears to be so bad that it couldn’t even generate the smallest of cult followings, at least none that I’ve heard of.

For some reason I’m fascinated by this title. Has anybody else seen or heard of this?
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« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2011, 06:54:53 PM »

I'd never heard of it, but it sounds fascinating in a horrible kind of way.  I won't get into details, but I will say there ARE bootlegs of it floating around out there. 
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« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2011, 07:45:53 PM »

What would enter someone's head that would possibly make them think this movie would be a good idea???? Question
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« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2011, 07:53:06 PM »

What would enter someone's head that would possibly make them think this movie would be a good idea???? Question

Oh, I'm sure plenty of people thought it was a good idea at the time. You should some of the artists who were involved with the covers: Ambrosia, Elton John, Leo Sayer, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Helen Reddy, to name but a few. I'm sure it's an atrocity.
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« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2011, 04:06:25 PM »

I think there actually was talk a few years ago about releasing this on DVD. I imagine getting the rights for the music would be a nightmare. I'm pretty sure it's available on some of the grayer sites.

You can buy a used copy of the soundtrack on Amazon for only 150 bucks!
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« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2011, 04:14:17 PM »

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Bits and pieces seem to be available on youtube.  This part, at least, is strangely hypnotic, although I imagine it would become tiresome extremely quickly.
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« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2011, 05:47:46 PM »

That is positively surreal. Now I really want to get my hands on a copy.
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