The Beatles in film The Beatles in film The Beatles appeared in five motion pictures, most of which were very well received. The exception was the (mostly unscripted) television film "Magical Mystery Tour" which was panned by critics and the public alike. Each of their films had the same name as their associated soundtrack album and a song on that album. The Beatles had a successful film career, beginning with A Hard Day's Night (1964), a loosely scripted comic farce, sometimes compared to the Marx Brothers in style. A black-and-white film, it focused on Beatlemania and the band's hectic touring lifestyle and was directed
The Beatles at The Cavern Club Beatles, before their initial residency in Hamburg. The Beatles' history with the Cavern Club is also explored in two recent documentary films: "I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern" (2011), directed by John Piper; and "Good Ol' Freda" (2013), directed by Ryan White. (See note below in "Epstein".) The Beatles' name was first noticed by Epstein in the first issue of Bill Harry's "Mersey Beat" magazine (which Epstein successfully sold in his NEMS music store), on numerous posters around Liverpool, and on the front page of the second issue of "Mersey Beat". before asking journalist Harry who they