Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
The Rutles Remonstered
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Edits by Garrett Gilchrist.
Remastered music videos from the 1978 film "The Rutles In All You Need Is Cash" and related materials.
The Rutles were created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes (Dirk McQuickly and Ron Nasty). Gary Weis directed with music by Neil Innes. With Rikki Fataar (Stig O'Hara), John Halsey (Barry Wom), Ollie Halsall (Leppo). Musical arrangements by John Altman.
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I Must Be In Love
Parody of "A Hard Day's Night" (film)
Unless we count a section of "Good Times Roll," this is the first Rutles song as performed on Rutland Weekend Television. Neil Innes had written a song which sounded Beatley, for an unrelated hospital sketch. A parody of "A Hard Day's Night" sounded cheap to film, so they did so. This also aired on Saturday Night Live, and generated demand for the full-length film (which was produced by Lorne Michaels).
I considered including footage from that version here, but decided against it. David Battley plays the "George" role and the frame rate is different. Some footage is "useable" but the edit would have been a mess.
I have included two edits here. One is from the 1978 film with an extra intro. The other is an alternate edit done for the "Rutles Number Twos" release.
There is almost enough additional footage in "Rutles 2" to fill up the length of the song. This has unfortunately been cropped to widescreen. I've IVTCed it, deinterlaced and removed effects as much as possible. Syncing the performance footage to the song left some gaps, which were filled with some footage from the 1978 film, to try to make the performance coherent, and Rife slowdown to add frames in places (like "I feel bad" and "close my eyes," which is also noise reduced via Neat Video to make this less obvious). A couple of shots are repeated.
The intro to the 1978 film also features a long uncut shot starting with "I feel rich." The film here is in somewhat rough shape, with blue print damage. PFClean was used to remove dirt. 17 frames are also missing from the 2001 Rhino DVD and have been carefully recreated using Rife.
The 2001 DVD has not been contrast reduced here, as it would be for color sections. I don't think frames are dropped during the 1978 edit of this song, thankfully, which is unusual on the 2001 disc.
The Rutles Remonstered
archive.org/details/the-rutles-remonstered
Edits by Garrett Gilchrist.
Remastered music videos from the 1978 film "The Rutles In All You Need Is Cash" and related materials.
The Rutles were created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes (Dirk McQuickly and Ron Nasty). Gary Weis directed with music by Neil Innes. With Rikki Fataar (Stig O'Hara), John Halsey (Barry Wom), Ollie Halsall (Leppo). Musical arrangements by John Altman.
For more:
archive.org/details/@ocpmovie?query=rutles
________
I Must Be In Love
Parody of "A Hard Day's Night" (film)
Unless we count a section of "Good Times Roll," this is the first Rutles song as performed on Rutland Weekend Television. Neil Innes had written a song which sounded Beatley, for an unrelated hospital sketch. A parody of "A Hard Day's Night" sounded cheap to film, so they did so. This also aired on Saturday Night Live, and generated demand for the full-length film (which was produced by Lorne Michaels).
I considered including footage from that version here, but decided against it. David Battley plays the "George" role and the frame rate is different. Some footage is "useable" but the edit would have been a mess.
I have included two edits here. One is from the 1978 film with an extra intro. The other is an alternate edit done for the "Rutles Number Twos" release.
There is almost enough additional footage in "Rutles 2" to fill up the length of the song. This has unfortunately been cropped to widescreen. I've IVTCed it, deinterlaced and removed effects as much as possible. Syncing the performance footage to the song left some gaps, which were filled with some footage from the 1978 film, to try to make the performance coherent, and Rife slowdown to add frames in places (like "I feel bad" and "close my eyes," which is also noise reduced via Neat Video to make this less obvious). A couple of shots are repeated.
The intro to the 1978 film also features a long uncut shot starting with "I feel rich." The film here is in somewhat rough shape, with blue print damage. PFClean was used to remove dirt. 17 frames are also missing from the 2001 Rhino DVD and have been carefully recreated using Rife.
The 2001 DVD has not been contrast reduced here, as it would be for color sections. I don't think frames are dropped during the 1978 edit of this song, thankfully, which is unusual on the 2001 disc.
