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The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988, Jan 01
0h 59m
A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording. With Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon and such songs as "Sleeping in a Jar," and "Strictly Genteel." The inside history of the first feature-length film to be shot on video in 6 days.
Directed by
Frank Zappa
Written by
Frank Zappa
Ringo Starr
Self
Frank Zappa
Self
Theodore Bikel
Self
Keith Moon
Self (archive footage)
Dweezil Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Moon Unit Zappa
Self (archive footage)
George Duke
Self
Warren Cuccurullo
Self
Jimmy Carl Black
Self
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Self (archive footage)
Chester Thompson
Self (archive footage)
Tom Fowler
Self (archive footage)
Ike Willis
Self
Phyllis Smith Altenhaus
Self (archive footage)
Dick Barber
Self (archive footage)
Peter Bos
Self
Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Self
Pamela Des Barres
Self (archive footage)
Aynsley Dunbar
Self
Roy Estrada
Self (archive footage)
Bruce Fowler
Self (archive footage)
Bunk Gardner
Self (archive footage)
Elgar Howarth
Self
Martin Lickert
Self
Al Malkin
Self (archive footage)
Janet Neville-Ferguson
Self
Lucy Offerall
Self
Don Preston
Self
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Themselves (archive footage)
Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood
Self
Jeff Simmons
Self
Arthur Dyer Tripp III
Self (archive footage)
Ruth Underwood
Self (archive footage)
Sarina-Marie Volman
Self
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