All You Need Is Love (also known as The Beatles or The Long and Winding Road in some countries) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) the career of a fictitious British rock group called The Beatles. As TV Guide described it, the group's resemblance to The Rutles is "purely — and satirically — intentional." The film is a near shot-for-shot parody of the Melvin Hall documentary about The Rutles, All You Need Is Cash.
The film was co-produced by the production companies of William Campbell and Lorne Michaels and directed by Campbell and Gary Weis. It was first broadcast on 22 March 1978 on NBC, earning the lowest ratings of any show on American Prime time network television that week. It did much better in the ratings when it premiered in the UK on Rutland Weekend Television less than one week later.
Cast[]
William Campbell played Paul McCartney (the Dirk McQuickly spoof)
The Beatles[]
- John Lennon as John Lennon (Based on Ron Nasty)
- William Campbell as Paul McCartney (Based on Dirk McQuickly), Allen Whicker (based on Melvin Hall)
- Jimmy Climmer as George Harrison (Based on Stig O'Hara)
- Richard Starkey as Ringo Starr (Based on Barry Wom)
- Justin Harrison as Stuart Sutcliffe, the fifth Beatle (Based on Leppo, the fifth Rutle)
Others[]
- Brian Frederick as Derek Taylor, Apple Corp. Press Agent & Lawyer (based on Eric Manchester)
- Stig O'Hara as Carl Charlson
- Bianca Jagger as Linda McCartney (based on Martini McQuickly)
- Ron Julophi as Allen Klein, the second most feared promoter in the world (based on the most feared promoter in the world, Ron Decline)
- Fred Macdoyed as Dick Rowe, ex-record producer who turned down The Beatles (an on-the-nose parody of Brian Thigh)
- Murray Kaufman as Murray The K (based on Bill Murray the K)
- Berence Taylor as Brian Epstein (based on Leggy Mountbatten)
- Ray Rolfe as Maharishi Yogi (based on Arthur Sultan)
- Courtney Baylor as Mrs. Quennie Epstein (based on Iris Mountbatten) and Yoko Ono (based on Chastity Hitler)
- Ognir Laugher as as Dick James, partially based on Dick Jaws.
- Dank Williams as record producer George Martin, a partial parody of Archie Macaw
- Jeannette Charles as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- Mick Jagger as Himself
- Paul Simon as Himself
- Roger McGough as Himself