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Owen also filled with script with quips and catchphrases, some of them based on The Beatles own words, that immediately became a part of Beatle lore:

"How did you find America?" "Turn left at Greenland"

"Stop being taller than me!"

"Ringo, what are you up to?" "Page five."

All four Beatles proved to be completely natural performers in front of a camera, and handle the complex rapid-fire dialogue with ease. Each Beatle (except for Paul) gets a scene to themselves, and each one is a highlight.

John Lennon spends a few minutes talking to a woman who mistakes him for someone else (though who this someone else is never becomes clear), until she puts on her glasses and says "You don’t look like him at all!". When she walks away, Lennon mutters "She looks more like him than I do."

Ringo Starr received many accolades for his solo scene, a Chaplinesque romp through the English countryside, dressed in a trenchcoat. Ringo was probably the most natural actor of The Beatles, and the fact that he was nursing a real life hangover in these scenes adds to the realism.

In a film that contains more clever dialogue than laugh-out loud punchlines, the funniest scene belongs to George Harrison, who wanders into a television producer’s office and is quizzed on his opinion of some new teen fashion designs. At that time, Harrison was known as The Quiet Beatle and was the least intriguing personality of the four. This scene is one of his triumphant moments, as he drives the producer into a state of apoplexy with his laconic and honest answers to the director's condescending questions.

Typical of the film’s sense of humor is the scene where Ringo goes to hang up his jacket in the closet, only to find an elderly man in his underwear (there is a logical explanation for this in the film.) "Hey," he tells the others, "somebody’s put an old man in the cupboard." George nonchalantly walks over to the closet, opens it, inspects the old man in his underwear, closes the closet, nonchalantly walks back to the group, and with an incredible sense of knowing just how long to wait, dryly states "He’s right, you know."

The non-Beatle cast members are uniformly excellent, but Wilfred Brambell stands out as Paul’s mischievous grandfather who’s only point in his favor is, as is pointed out throughout the film, is that "He’s very clean." Grandfather McCartney’s only joy in

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