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All You Need Is Cash

All You Need Is Cash(also known as The

Rutles)DVD cover

Directed by Eric IdleGary Weis

Written by Eric IdleNeil Innes

Starring Eric IdleNeil InnesJohn HalseyRicky FataarMichael PalinGeorgeHarrisonBianca JaggerJohn BelushiDan AykroydGilda RadnerBill Murray

Running time 76 minutes

Language English

All You Need Is Cash (also known as The Rutles) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) thecareer of a fictitious British rock group called The Rutles. As TV Guide described it, the group's resemblance to TheBeatles is "purely — and satirically — intentional."[citation needed]

The film was co-produced by the production companies of Eric Idle and Lorne Michaels, and directed by Idle andGary Weis. It was first broadcast on 22 March 1978 on NBC, earning the lowest[1][2] ratings of any show onAmerican Prime time network television that week. It did much better in the ratings when it premiered in the UK onBBC2 less than one week later.The music and events in the lives of the Rutles paralleled that of The Beatles, spoofing many of the latter's careerhighlights. For instance, the animated film Yellow Submarine is parodied as Yellow Submarine Sandwich, and thesong "Get Back" became "Get Up And Go". Songs from the film were released on an accompanying soundtrackalbum.

OverviewAll You Need Is Cash was one of the first films of its kind, and an inspiration for the successful Rob Reiner cultcomedy This Is Spinal Tap, released in 1984.The Rutles were played by Eric Idle, John Halsey, Ricky Fataar, and Neil Innes. The band originally appeared in asketch on Idle's program Rutland Weekend Television. The sketch was later re-broadcast on the American televisionshow Saturday Night Live. For the film, Fataar replaced David Battley as Stig.All You Need Is Cash is a series of skits and gags that illustrate the fictional Rutles story, closely following the chronology of The Beatles'. Innes, a former member of the British musical comedy group Bonzo Dog Band and associate of the Monty Python troupe, became acquainted with the Beatles when the Bonzo Dog Band had a cameo appearance in the movie Magical Mystery Tour in which they performed "Death Cab for Cutie". Paul McCartney had

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also produced the Bonzo's only hit single, I'm the Urban Spaceman, composed and sung by Innes. Fourteen of Innes'songs were released on a soundtrack album (the CD version added six songs omitted from the original vinyl album).The album was both critically and commercially successful and was nominated for a Grammy award for BestComedy Recording of the year. The orchestrations and arrangements for the Rutles recordings were made by filmcomposer John Altman.The film has many cameo appearances by both British and American comedians, including Monty Python, SaturdayNight Live and Rutland Weekend Television. George Harrison has a cameo role as a television journalist conductingan interview outside the headquarters of Rutle Corps, oblivious to the stream of people coming out of the buildingcarrying items stolen from the office; this is a reference to the Beatles' famously plundered Apple Boutique andApple Headquarters, where even the ceiling lining was looted. The interview ends abruptly as the microphone isstolen out of his hand.The film also features cameos from Idle's fellow Python Michael Palin, several SNL cast members including GildaRadner, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Al Franken and Tom Davis, Bianca Jagger as Dirk McQuickly'swife Martini, Ronnie Wood as a Hells Angel, and Mick Jagger, and Paul Simon and Roger McGough as themselves.The Beatles publicity was also parodied. London was awashWikipedia:Avoid peacock terms with posters saying"The Rutles Are Coming", analogous to the similar "The Beatles Are Coming" poster.The program fared well on its British debut on BBC television. The film's cult status grew from the success of thesoundtrack album, and after its release on the new medium of home video.

Cast• Eric Idle as Dirk McQuickly, a parody of Paul McCartney / Narrator / Stanley J. Krammerhead III, Jr., occasional

visiting professor of applied narcotics at the University of Please Yourself, California• John Halsey as Barry Wom (Barrington Womble), a parody of Ringo Starr• Ricky Fataar as Stig O'Hara, a parody of George Harrison• Neil Innes as Ron Nasty, a parody of John Lennon• Michael Palin as Eric Manchester, Rutle Corp. Press Agent / Lawyer• George Harrison as The Interviewer• Bianca Jagger as Martini McQuickly• John Belushi as Ron Decline, the most feared promoter in the world and a parody of Allen Klein• Dan Aykroyd as Brian Thigh, ex-record producer who turned down the Rutles• Gilda Radner as Mrs. Emily Pules• Bill Murray as Bill Murray the K.• Gwen Taylor as Mrs. Iris Mountbatten / Chastity• Ron Wood as Hell's Angel• Terence Bayler as Leggy Mountbatten, somewhat of a parody of Brian Epstein• Henry Woolf as Arthur Sultan, the Surrey Mystic• Ollie Halsall as Leppo, the "fifth Rutle," somewhat of a parody of Stuart Sutcliffe• Barry Cryer as Dick Jaws• Frank Williams as Archie Macaw, record producer• Mick Jagger as Himself• Paul Simon as Himself• Roger McGough as Himself

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Subsequent re-releasesThe show has been released on DVD, originally in a 66-minute version incorporating cuts for syndication, later in a"special edition" restored to its full length of 72 minutes and with extras including a commentary by Idle. Thefull-length version replaces a spoof newsreel voiceover by Idle with an American-sounding announcer.The soundtrack was reissued on CD. It included additional tracks from the original television sessions remixed instereo by Neil Innes. Innes, Fataar and Halsey returned in 1996 to record The Rutles Archaeology, but without theinvolvement of Eric Idle.

References[1] rutlemania.org (http:/ / www. rutlemania. org/ aynic5. html)[2] ew.com (http:/ / www. ew. com/ ew/ report/ 0,6115,1039527_21_0_,00. html)

External links and references• All You Need Is Cash (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0077147/ ) at the Internet Movie Database• Idle Thoughts (http:/ / www. ew. com/ ew/ report/ 0,6115,1039527_21_0_,00. html), an interview with Eric Idle

from March 2005• All You Need Is Cash on NBC-TV (http:/ / www. rutlemania. org/ aynic5. html), part of an anonymous fan's

website

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