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Let yourself go — The Beatles will come and take you away in Magical Mystery Tour. - Magical Mystery Tour
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Title: Magical Mystery Tour

Release Date: 25 Dec 1967

Runtime: 52m

Genre: Music, Comedy, Fantasy, TV Movie

Director: Apple Corps, BBC, Subafilms

Production Companies: Apple Corps, BBC, Subafilms

Overview: Originally produced for television, this short film as an off-the-wall road movie starring the Beatles and a couple dozen friends on a psychedelic bus tour.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.5 (160 votes)

Cast

  • Self / Ticket Salesman / Magician with Coffee / Narrator: John Lennon
  • Self / Major McCartney / Brown Nosed Magician: Paul McCartney
  • Self / Magician Looking Through Telescope: George Harrison
  • Self / Talkative Magician: Ringo Starr
  • The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Vivian Stanshall
  • The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Neil Innes
  • The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Roger Ruskin Spear
  • The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Larry 'Legs' Smith
  • The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Sam Spoons
  • The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Rodney Slater
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