The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1960)

Directed by

Peter Sellers, Richard Lester

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

11 min

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a British experimental short comedy. It is a series of silly sketches and gags with no real plot.

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What happens

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film is a 1959 British experimental sketch comedy short film directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers, in collaboration with Bruce Lacey. It was a favourite of The Beatles, especially John Lennon, which led to Lester being hired to direct A Hard Day's Night (1964), Help! (1965), and How I Won The War (1966), which starred Lennon. In Help!, Lacey makes a guest appearance as George Harrison's gardener in the sequence where the group arrive at their "home". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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