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The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988)
Directed by Frank Zappa
Overview
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.
Length 59 minutes
Actors
Frank Zappa | Tony Palmer | Phyllis Smith Altenhaus | Dick Barber | Theodore Bikel | Jimmy Carl Black | Peter Bos | Napoleon Murphy Brock | Phyllis Bryn-Julson | Warren Cuccurullo | Pamela Des Barres | George Duke | Aynsley Dunbar | Roy Estrada | Bruce Fowler | Tom Fowler | Bunk Gardner | Jerry D. Good | Elgar Howarth | Howard Kaylan | Roelof Kiers | Martin Lickert | London Symphony Orchestra | Al Malkin | Keith Moon | Janet Neville-Ferguson | Lucy Offerall | Don Preston | Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra | Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood | Jeff Simmons | Ringo Starr | Chester Thompson | Arthur Dyer Tripp III | Ruth Underwood | Dweezil Zappa | Moon Unit Zappa | Gail Zappa | Ian Underwood | Mark Volman | Sarina-Marie Volman | Ike Willis