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All You Need Is Cash (also known as The Rutles) is a 1978 television film that traces the career of the English rock group The Rutles.
- 73 min
- 92.2K
- Monover Susstereo
All You Need Is Cash is a series of skits and gags that illustrate the fictional Rutles story, closely following the chronology of the Beatles' career.
Mar 22, 1978 · The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash: Directed by Eric Idle, Gary Weis. With Eric Idle, John Halsey, Ricky Fataar, Neil Innes. Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.
- (7K)
- Comedy, Music
- Eric Idle, Gary Weis
- 1978-03-22
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (also known as The Rutles) was a documentary released in 1978. It reminded the world of the Rutles and re-enthused a large number of Rutles fans, giving rise to a new wave of Rutlemania.
Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk McQuickly (Eric Idle), Barry Wom (John Halsey), Stig O'Hara (Ricky Fataar), and Ron Nasty (Neil Innes); better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows their career from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg's infamous Rat-Keller, to their amazing worldwide success.
A brilliantly realised parody of The Beatles, All You Need Is Cash – made for just $200,000 – told the story of Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry and their figure-hugging strides and took specific episodes of the moptops’ existence and lampooned them with style and hilarity.
All You Need Is Cash (also known as The Rutles) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) the career of a fictitious English rock group called the Rutles. As TV Guide described it, the group's resemblance to the Beatles is "purely – and satirically – intentional". The film...
