The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988)


  • Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Music
  • Release Date: 1988-01-01
  • User Rating: 7.5/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 59min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Frank Zappa
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Summary

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.

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  • Frank Zappa

    as Self

  • Tony Palmer

    as Self

  • Phyllis Smith Altenhaus

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Dick Barber

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Theodore Bikel

    as Self

  • Jimmy Carl Black

    as Self

  • Peter Bos

    as Self

  • Napoleon Murphy Brock

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Phyllis Bryn-Julson

    as Self

  • Warren Cuccurullo

    as Self

  • Pamela Des Barres

    as Self (archive footage)

  • George Duke

    as Self

  • Aynsley Dunbar

    as Self

  • Roy Estrada

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Bruce Fowler

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Tom Fowler

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Bunk Gardner

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Jerry D. Good

    as Self (archive footage) (as Jerry Goode)

  • Elgar Howarth

    as Self

  • Howard Kaylan

    as Self

  • Roelof Kiers

    as Self

  • Martin Lickert

    as Self

  • London Symphony Orchestra

    as Itself (archive footage) (as The London Symphony Orchestra)

  • Al Malkin

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Keith Moon

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Janet Neville-Ferguson

    as Self

  • Lucy Offerall

    as Self

  • Don Preston

    as Self

  • Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra

    as Themselves (archive footage)

  • Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood

    as Self

  • Jeff Simmons

    as Self

  • Ringo Starr

    as Self

  • Chester Thompson

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Arthur Dyer Tripp III

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ruth Underwood

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Dweezil Zappa

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Moon Unit Zappa

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Gail Zappa

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ian Underwood

    as Self

  • Mark Volman

    as Self

  • Sarina-Marie Volman

    as Self

  • Ike Willis

    as Self
Directing Frank Zappa Director
Sound Frank Zappa Music
Production Jill Silverthorne Associate Producer
Production Frank Zappa Producer
Sound Kent Nagano Conductor
Editing Booey Kober Editor
Writing Frank Zappa Writer
Editing Raymond M. Bush Editor

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