According to interviews conducted with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr for "The Beatles Anthology", director Richard Lester was given a larger budget for this film than he had for "A Hard Day's Night", thanks to the commercial success of the latter. Thus, this feature film was in colour and was shot on several exotic foreign locations. It was also given a more extensive musical score than "A Hard Day's Night", provided by a full orchestra, and including pieces of well known classical music: Wagner's "Lohengrin", Act III prelude, Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture", Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ("Ode to Joy"), and, during the end credits and with their own comic vocal interpretation, Rossini's "Barber of Seville" overture. The original title for the film – only changed to "Help!" very near to its release – was "Eight Arms to Hold You".