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| Year: | 1968 |
| Rating: | 7.1(9452) |
| Listed in: | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music |
| Directed by: | George Dunning |
| Actors: | The Beatles Paul Angelis John Clive Dick Emery Geoffrey Hughes Lance Percival |
| "The forces of good! The forces of evil!" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
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| George Dunning | |
| Actors | |
| The Beatles | as Themselves |
| Paul Angelis | as Chief Blue Meanie/Ringo |
| John Clive | as John |
| Dick Emery | as Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D - Nowhere Man/Lord Mayor/Max |
| Geoffrey Hughes | as Paul |
| Lance Percival | as Young/Old Fred |
| Peter Batten | as George |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Budget: | GBP 250,000 |
| Plot: | The Beatles are spirited away in the eponymous yellow submarine to save Pepperland from the dreaded Blue Meanies. Along the way, the singing saviors encounter a surreal feast for both the eyes and ears: phantasmagorical creatures, outrageous landscapes, and colors that throb and vibrate to each and every Beatle song on the soundtrack. It's a drug-free, hallucinogenic journey for the armchair tripper, the peak of which is undoubtedly (and not surprisingly) the "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" sequence. An incredible film experience at all levels, "Yellow Submarine" manages to capture exquisitely and in visual form the beauty and madness of the incomparable Beatles. And to think 1968 also included Kubrick's "2001!" |
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"Yellow Submarine" Performed by The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "Hey Bulldog" Performed by The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "Eleanor Rigby" Performed by The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "Love You To" Performed by The Beatles Written by George Harrison Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "All Together Now" Performed by The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" Performed by The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "Think For Yourself" Performed by The Beatles Written by George Harrison Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Performed by The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "With A Little Help From My Friends" Performed by The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "Baby You're A Rich Man" Performed by The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "All You Need Is Love" Performed by The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "When I'm Sixty-Four" Performed by The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "Nowhere Man" Performed by The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "It's All Too Much" Performed by The Beatles Written by George Harrison Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records "Only a Northern Song" Performed by The Beatles Written by George Harrison Published by Apple Records Courtesy of Apple Records |
Goofs
| Continuity: SPOILER: At the end, the live-action The Beatles show their souvenirs. George Harrison has the motor, and Ringo Starr has the "hole" in his pocket, and Paul McCartney has a little "love". The last is inconsistent with the animation, where John Lennon had it. |
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Old Fred: Oh! Frankenstein! Ringo: Yeah, I used to go out with his sister. Old Fred: His sister? Ringo: Yeah, Phyllis. Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD.: If I spoke prose you'd all find out / I don't know what I talk about. Paul: Senile delinquents. Old Fred: Now whatever you do, don't touch that button! Ringo: Which button? Old Fred: That button. Ringo: This button? [presses the button and is ejected] Aaaahhhhh! Old Fred: That was the panic button. John: It appears to be a group of fellas. Paul: Look, it's a school of whales. Ringo: They look a little bit old for school. Paul: University then. Ringo: University of "Wales". John: They look like drop-outs to me. John: Break the glass. George: We can't! Paul: It's Beatle-proof. John: Nothing is Beatle-proof! Ringo: Cor! It's all a load of Father Xmas's. Paul: No, that's Father Time. Ringo: How'd you know that? Paul: Well, I read it in a book once. John: It's blue glass. George: Must be from Kentucky, then. [Ringo picks up a hole and puts it in his pocket] Ringo: I've got a hole in me pocket. [the Beatles are shown as their live action selves] George: That was one great party. And we brought back some lovely souvenirs. [takes out a kite string with a wind-up mistaken for a motor] George: Here's the motor. Paul: And I've got a little [the word "love" comes out of his hand] Paul: love. Ringo: [takes out a fake hole from his pocket] And I've got a hole in my pocket. George: A hole? Ringo: Well, half a hole anyway. I gave the rest to Jeremy. George: What can he do with half a hole? Paul: Fix it to keep his mind from wandering! Chief Meanie: Pepperland is a tickle of joy on the blue belly of the universe. It must be scratched. Right, Max? Max: Yes, Your Blueness. Chief Meanie: WHAT? We Meanies only take "no" for an answer! Is that understood, Max? Max: No, Your Blueness! Chief Meanie: That's better. Chief Meanie: A thing of beauty; destroy it forever! Old Fred: Help! Help! Help! Ringo: No thanks, don't need any. Old Fred: Won't you please, please help me! Ringo: Hey, I wonder what'll happen if I pull this lever. Old Fred: Oh, you mustn't do that now. Ringo: Can't help it. I'm a born "Liver-pooler." John: Hey Ringo, I just had the strangest dream. Ringo: I warned you not to eat on an empty stomach. Jeremy: Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! So little time! So much to know! [Jeremy is writing with his foot] Jeremy: These are the footnotes for my nineteenth book. This is my standard procedure for doing it. And while I compose it, I'm also reviewing it! John: ...Were your notices good? Jeremy: It's my policy never to read my reviews. George: A boob for all seasons. John: Hullo, there, blue people! Won't you join us? Hook up, and otherwise co-mingle? Whaddaya say? Chief Meanie: Max... Max: Yes, your Blueness... er, your NEWness? Chief Meanie: It's no longer a blue world, Max. Where could we go? Max: Argentina? John: Are you with us? Will you join? Chief Meanie: Shall we? Max: [nodding] No! Chief Meanie: [threatening] AARGH! Max: [hastily] N-n-y-y-y-y-YES! Your Newness! Chief Meanie: Yeeeees, Max! Jeremy: Yes! Ah, yes is a word with a glorious ring! A true universal utopious thing! Engenders embracing and chasing of blues, the very best word for the whole world to use! Chief Meanie: Yes, let us mix, Max. I've never admitted it before, but my cousin is the blue-bird of happiness! Chief Meanie: Today, Pepperland goes... BLUEly! Chief Meanie: GO, glove! Point, and having pointed, POUNCE! Old Fred: Not polite to point! Chief Meanie: What, what, what! The glove is losing his touch! John: Move over, I'm driving. George: No, I got here first. Ringo: I'll drive if you like... George: No, you sit in the middle. John: No, I'm sitting in the middle. Ringo: You said you were driving. John: I am driving. George: I'll get in the back, then. [they drive off camera] [CRASH!] [opening a door to find King Kong abducting a woman] George: Do you think we're interrupting something? John: I think so. Old Fred: Well, lads, what do you think? George: I think that... Old Fred: Remember, there'll be rough seas ahead! What do you think? Paul: Well, um... Old Fred: Pounding overwhelming waves! What do you think of that, eh? John: Well, I think that... Ringo: As a matter of fact, I think that... George, Paul, John, Ringo: I think... Old Fred: Well? George, Paul, John, Ringo: I've forgotten. Paul: Do you ever get the feeling... Ringo: Yeah. Paul: That things aren't as rosy as they appear to be under the surface? John: Well, in my humble opinion, we've become involved in Einstein's time-space continuum theory. George: All right. John: Relatively speaking, that is. George: Maybe time's gone on strike. Ringo: What for? George: Shorter hours. Ringo: I don't blame it. Must be very tiring being time, mustn't it? George, John, Paul: Why? Ringo: Well, it's a twenty-four hour day, isn't it? John: You surprise me, Ringo. Ringo: Why? John: Dealing in abstracts. John: It's time... for time! [after Ringo ejects himself from the submarine] Paul: Poor Ringo. George: Poor lad. Paul: Never did no harm to no one. John: Hey, lads, now that Ringo's gone, what do we do? Old Fred: Learn to sing trios. Paul: Naw, let's save the poor devil. [being swallowed by the vacuum monster] John: The monster's packing in! Old Fred: By all the sea nymphets! We're losing power! George: We're being swallowed! Paul: What should we do? John: Serve tea? Paul: Lovely. Old Fred: By Neptune's knickerbockers! She's puttered out! Old Fred: [the motor has conked out] By Neptune's knickerbockers! She's puttered out! George: Maybe we should call a road service? Paul: Can't, no road! Ringo: And we're not sub... scribers? John/Paul/George: Subscribers, oh... Paul: Let's show him our motor. John: Steady on! I mean, you don't want to be showing your motor to just anybody. Ringo: Hey, uh, Mr. Boob - you can come with us, if you like. Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD.: You mean... you'd take a nowhere man? Ringo: Yeah. Come on, we'll take you somewhere. George: Ok, men all aboard. Lets go somewhere. Ringo: [Indicating Jeremy] What about him? John: He's happy enough going around in circles. Ringo: Aw, poor fellow. Can't he come with us? Paul: I don't know. Ringo's just a sentamentalist. Ringo: Hey, Mr Boob! You can come with us if you like. Jeremy: You... you mean you'd take a nowhere man? Ringo: Yea, come on. We'll take you somewhere. Ringo: [Describing the Yellow Submarine to himself after his first encounter with it] It must have been one of those Unidentified Flying Cupcakes... a pigment of me imagination. Paul: Groovy! How do you start this thing? Old Fred: She starts with a Blue Meanie attack. John: Well... supposing there are no Blue Meanies in the neighbourhood? Old Fred: oh, well, then you, um, start looking for a switch. Ringo: [They all start trying random buttons and switches. Ringo pushes one that starts playing the first few notes of the song "All Together Now"] Perhaps this is it? John: Hey, Jeremy, what do you know about holes? Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD.: There are simply no holes in my education. Paul: You mean you haven't composed a "hole" book? Lord Mayor: It's quite uncanny, your faces... Paul: We're quite cute, really. Lord Mayor: You could pass for the originals! John: Well, we are the originals. Lord Mayor: You could pass as the originals! John: But we are the originals. [seeing the Chief Meanie for the first time] John: He reminds me of my old English teacher. Paul: [singing] Tiptoe... through the meanies... Blue Meanie: Are you, er... blueish? You don't LOOK blueish. George: Okay, instruments at the ready... John: Okay, on the beat of one, a-two, a-three, a-four, a-five, a-six... Ringo: Hey, can't you make it three? John: Oh, all right, on the beat of three: A-one, a-two, a-three... Chief Meanie: My dear friend... let us not forget that heaven is blue. Chief Meanie: Ah, here you are my glovey-dovey. Go get thee hence, and destroy yon upstarts. SMASH THEM, SQUASH THEM, CRUSH THEM! O-BLUE-terate them! Max: Here, your Blueness... have some nasty medicine! John: If I could come in, here, I think the theory put forward by Einstein... Paul: [singing] Einstein, Einstein, any-any-any old Einstein... John: Could well be applied here. The people in the ball are obviously extensions of our own personalities, suspended, as it were, in time, frozen in space... George: Uh, John... John: ...According to the now-famous theory of relativity... George: John... John: Which, briefly explained... George: John! John: Is simply a matter of taking two eggs... George: JOHN! John: Beating lightly, and adding a little salt and pepper to taste... George: As a matter of fact, there's a war on. John: Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence? Paul: Oh, let's not waste any more time sitting on the hence! Beatles to battle! Charge! [Jeremy is cornered by the Chief Meanie] Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD.: He does, in truth, seem quite annoyed. Some reference material be-be-before I'm destroyed! [reading] "Where ground is soft most often grows, arise! Arise! Arouse! A rose! [a rose sprouts on the Chief Meanie's nose] Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD.: A rosy nose? Chief Meanie: SPEAK YOUR LAST PIECE! Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD.: Peace! Peace! Supplant the doom and the gloom! Turn off what is sour! Turn into a flower and BLOOM! BLOOM! BLOOM! [roses sprout all over the Chief Meanie] [last lines] John, Paul, George, Ringo: All together, now! George: Hey! There's a Cyclops! Paul: Can't be. It's got two eyes. John: Must be a "bicycle-ops" then. Ringo: There's another one. John: A whole "'cyclopedia"! Old Fred: All right then. Let's get this vessel shipshape. Ringo: I kind of like it the way it is. Submarine shape. George: Yes, dey do look very nice, don't dey? Ringo: Yes, dey do. John: Dey do dough, don't dey? George: Yes, dey do. Ringo: Don't dey, dough? George: Dough? [Paul enters] John: Fa-la. Dat dough! Ringo: Oh, your story has touched me heart. Jump in. We'll get me friends. Old Fred: Oh, bless you. Ringo: Did I sneeze? Paul: And do you speak English? Jeremy: Old English, Middle, a dialect pure. George: Well, do you speak English? Jeremy: You know I'm not sure. Ringo: He's so smart he doesn't even remember what he knows! Narrator: Once upon a time, or maybe twice, there was an unearthly paradise called Pepperland. 80,000 leagues beneath the sea it lay, or lie. I'm not too sure. Chief Blue Meanie: Hee, hee hee hee hee! Oh, I haven't laughed so much since Pompeii. Ringo: Hey, would you believe me if I told you I was being followed by a yellow submarine? Police Officer: No, no, I would not. Ringo: Oh, yeah, didn't think you would. I could've sworn I saw a yellow submarine. But that's not logic now. Is it? It must've been one of them "Unidentified Flying Cupcakes". Or a figment of me imagination. But I don't have an imagination. [seeing John looking through a telescope, concerned] Paul: What's the matter, John Love? Blue Meanies. John Lennon: Newer and bluer Meanies have been sighted in the vicinity of this theatre. There's only one way we can go out! George: How's that? John Lennon: Singing! Ringo: Liverpool can be a lonely place on a Saturday night, and this is only Thursday morning. Paul: Say, Ringo, you're not half the lad you used to be. [in the Sea of Holes] John: This place reminds me of Blackburn, Lancashire. Chief Blue Meanie: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... the hills are alive! Max: [singing] With the sound of music. Chief Meanie: Ah, the hills are alive... Max: [sings]... with the sound of music! Chief Meanie: [Punches Max] Who did it? Who is responsible for this? Max: Rimsky-Korsakov? [Chief Meanie shoots him, Blue Menial #3 stomps him into ground] Max: [Poking his head up from ground] Guy Lombardo? Old Fred: Hey, what would your friends be doing here? Ringo: Displaying. Old Fred: Displaying what? Ringo: Dis-playing around. Chief Blue Meanie: [as Blue Minions are routed] You're advancing the wrong way! Retreat backwards! Chief Meanie: Tomorrow the world! Old Fred: You've got to steer clear. Ringo: Steer clear? Old Fred: Yes, steer. Clear? Ringo: Yes, dear. Old Fred: "H" for "Hurry," "E" for "'Ergent,'" "L" for "Love me," and "P" for "P-P-P-Please help!" George: It's all in the mind. Ringo: George, what are you doing up there? George: [driving in Ringo's car] Now, what is it, Ringo? Is it a matter you want to take up... or down? Ringo: [indicating Fred] This chap, here. Old Fred: [crazy gibberish] Submarines! Explosions! Ringo, Old Fred, John: Blue Meanies! George: Aww, you're nuts, the pair of ya. [drives off] Ringo: Hey, that's my car, lad. George: How do you know it's your car, lad? Ringo: I know it anywhere. Red with yellow wheels. [the car changes colors] Ringo: I mean... blue with orange wheels. [the car changes colors again] George: It's all in the mind. Paul: Shhh! George: What did you say? Paul: Shhh! George: Good plan. George: Hey, it's seen us! Find the boxing button! Paul: Whoever heard of a "boxing button"? John: Who cares! Find one! Lord Mayor: Four scores and 32 bars ago, our four fathers Old Fred: A quartet? Lord Mayor: And four mothers Old Fred: Another quartet? Lord Mayor: Made their way in this yellow submarine... Old Fred: What, that little thing? Lord Mayor: ...to Pepperland. John: I am the ego man, goo goo ga choo. George: Hey, he looks wrong. Paul: He doesn't look at all well. George: In fact, he's horrible. John: He's so ugly. All: REALLY UGLY! [George tries to fix the sub's motor, receiving a huge electric shock instead] Old Fred: What do you think? George: I think I burnt me finger. Ringo: [as Jeremy disables the Chief Blue Meenie with flowers] First time I saw that Nowhere Man, that Nobody, "I" knew he was Somebody. John: You're right. Old Fred: [after they have all been turned into much younger versions of themselves] Now I don't mean to alarm you, mates, but the years are going backwards. George: What does that mean, Old Fred? Old Fred: It means that if we don't do something soon, we're all going to disappear up our own existance! Ringo: [sniffing] I want me mom! Ringo: Nothing ever happens to me. I'd jump in the river Mersey... but it looks like rain. Ringo: And we're not subscribers. Paul: Oh, let's not waste time sitting on the hence. Chief Meanie: Let us not forget that Heaven is blue... [screaming] TOMORROW, THE WORLD! Chief Meanie: Are the troops in readiness? Max: No, Your Blueness. Chief Meanie: The bonkers? Max: Nope. Chief Meanie: Clowns? Max: No. Chief Meanie: Snapping Turks? Max: No. Chief Meanie: Anti-music missiles? Max: No. Chief Meanie: The dreadful flying glove? Max: No! Chief Meanie: Splendid! Today... Pepperland goes blue-y...! Ringo: [seeing Jeremy captured by the Blue Meanies] Jeremy! Can it be you? Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD.: Can it be me? I think you better inquire the guards, for when I was captured, they took all my cards. Paul: Beatles to battle! CHARGE! John: [Frankenstein's monster has turned into John Lennon] Hey, Ringo, I've just had the strangest dream. Ringo: I warned you not to eat on an empty stomach. Now listen to old Fred. Old Fred: [speaking gibberish] Submarine! Explosions! Blue Meanies! [calmer] What do you think? John: [to Ringo] I think he needs a rehearsal. [the Beatles have finally arrived in Pepperland] John: Pepperland! George: Looks a bit salty around the edges. Chief Meanie: [confronting Jeremy] I think I'll tear him up into little pieces. Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD.: Oh, he does, does he? Chief Meanie: Yes, I think I'll make a blue burger out of him. Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD.: I don't care what you think. [tries to leave, but the Chief Meanie grabs him] Chief Meanie: Oh, you don't, eh? We'll soon see about that! Old Fred: [Ringo is driving the submarine] You've got to steer clear! Ringo: Steer clear? Old Fred: Yes, steer. Clear? Ringo: Yes, steer. Old Fred: [parking Ringo's car] Just park it here. Ringo: I'll just park it here. George: It's all in the mind, you know! |
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