The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
01/01/1988
1h
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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.
Cast
Frank Zappa
Self
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)
Bunk Gardner
Self (archive footage)
Jerry D. Good
Self (archive footage)
Elgar Howarth
Self
Howard Kaylan
Self
Roelof Kiers
Self
Martin Lickert
Self
London Symphony Orchestra
Itself (archive footage)
Al Malkin
Self (archive footage)
Keith Moon
Self (archive footage)
Janet Neville-Ferguson
Self
Lucy Offerall
Self
Don Preston
Self
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Self (archive footage)
Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood
Self
Jeff Simmons
Self
Ringo Starr
Self
Chester Thompson
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Dyer Tripp III
Self (archive footage)
Ruth Underwood
Self (archive footage)
Dweezil Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Moon Unit Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Gail Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Ian Underwood
Self
Mark Volman
Self
Sarina-Marie Volman
Self
Ike Willis
Self
Tom Fowler
Self (archive footage)
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