The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988)
59m
Running Time
January 1, 1988Release Date
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988)
59m
Running Time
January 1, 1988Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Frank Zappa
Self / Director / Writer / Producer / Music
Tony Palmer
Self
Phyllis Smith Altenhaus
Self (archive footage)
Dick Barber
Self (archive footage)
Theodore Bikel
Self
Jimmy Carl Black
Self
Peter Bos
Self
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Self (archive footage)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Self
Warren Cuccurullo
Self
Pamela Des Barres
Self (archive footage)
George Duke
Self
Aynsley Dunbar
Self
Roy Estrada
Self (archive footage)
Bruce Fowler
Self (archive footage)
Tom Fowler
Self (archive footage)
Bunk Gardner
Self (archive footage)
Booey Kober
Editor
Jerry D. Good
Self (archive footage) (as Jerry Goode)
Elgar Howarth
Self
Howard Kaylan
Self
Roelof Kiers
Self
Martin Lickert
Self
London Symphony Orchestra
Itself (archive footage) (as The London Symphony Orchestra)
Al Malkin
Self (archive footage)
Keith Moon
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
Details.
This Movie Is About.
avant-garde
progressive rock
frank zappa
american musician
Wiki.
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels is a documentary film made and released by Frank Zappa in 1987, detailing the making of Zappa's 1971 film 200 Motels. It was released direct-to-video.
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