A Hard Day's Night: Music on Film Series

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Chapter 4
Roll on Up As the script was taking shape, Richard Lester and Walter Shenson began assembling the filmmaking team that would help them bring The Beatles to life. To handle the practical, nuts-and-bolts aspects of the production—preparing budgets and schedules, ordering equipment, securing filming locations, and hiring crews— Denis O’Dell was brought in to serve as the movie’s associate producer. An experienced assistant director and line producer, O’Dell had just returned to England from a long stay in Yugoslavia, where he had supervised the shooting of the Richard Widmark/Sidney Poitier Viking epic The Long Ships, when he received a call from Bud Ornstein asking him to join The Beatles. Exhausted, O’Dell declined, but when his teenage children discovered that he
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