Hard Days

London
Aug. 14, 1964
A Hard Day's Night , starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr — the Beatles — is one of the smoothest, freshest, funniest films ever made solely for purposes of exploitation. Scorning plot, it affects to study an ordinary day or so in the wholly extraordinary lives of its heroes. They are the clear-eyed innocents, imprisoned by fame … but never for a moment blinded to the really flagrant foolishness of the adult world around them.

Saigon, South Vietnam

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