So much genius in this film. But most especially Neil Innes's astonishingly brilliant songs ❤

I'm still not over Neil passing away in 2019.

That first Rutles album is legitimately great. Not as a parody or pastiche, or anything, but on its own, it's a truly marvelous collection of songs. The second one is good too.

" This isn't too shabby." Got to be the greatest understatement ever uttered in history.

Stig, Barry, Dirk and Nasty showed just how big The Beatles could have been.

I remember when the album came out. We were blown away by the music and how clever it all was. Years later I was lucky enough to get a package in the post from Neil. Hand written lyrics to Piggy In The Middle. 4 months later he was gone. May he rest in peace.

The legend has certainly lasted longer than a lunchtime.

I loved it when it came out and always thought the songwriting was masterful, all the camera angles and spoofs on every photo shoot and press conference, just brilliant.

Neil Innes was a true treasure. I saw The Rutles at the 100 Club in London in 2006. Met him afterward and he was so gracious and warm. ❤

Not only did I love Neil in The Rutles, but I loved his work in The Holy Grail. Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin.

I watched All You Need is Cash when it first aired, I've watched it dozens of times since, and I own it on DVD. I still crack up every time I watch it. The music, the jokes, and the attention to detail are amazing, considering that the film was produced in a short time and on a low budget. The combination of talents that went into this film are like almost nothing else that existed before or since.

It’s over 40 years old and it’s still making me laugh… nuff said

Seeing Ricky Fataar talking is like hearing Harpo Marx speak. He didn't say a single word in the entire film.

Ringo did in fact have a desire to be a hairdresser and own a string of shops. I grew up on BBC Radio Beatle specials and we distinctly remember Ringo saying that.

One of my favourite films!! Still the best parody ever of the Prefab Four! RIP the immensely talented Neil Innes……..🙏

I was in high school when "All You Need Is Cash" came out. I watched it when it aired and bought the album right away. I still have it. My favorite Rutles song is "Piggy in the Middle".

We were all astounded when Rutles showed up because we’re all Beatles fans since approximately the beginning And to do a Mockumentary of them was astounding

As an comedy epicurean, Neil was woven into the fabric of non-traditional television in my growing years. We took so much for granted, as he always had so many tricks up his sleeve to capture the zeitgeist of his topic and mould his lyrics into a novel song. Thoroughly enjoyed the spoofery of The Rutles and also his solo series, “Innes Book of Records”. Wherein he applied his accomplished pathos and musical expertise, treating us to his own fascinating brand of rock’n’roll.

I went out with a girl who was an Innes, it turned she was his niece, her brother looks just like Neil. She told me a lovely story about being at his place one time, her and her twin sister were 15 at the time. Neil had run out of weed but the sisters had some but couldn't say anything because their mum was there and would disapprove. So they got Neil and told him, so he took them for a look around the garden and they had a smoke and he took them into his studio. He asked them to listen to a new tune he had written, she said it was a beautiful, moving piece of work and they both were in tears at the end of it.

We watched it as a family when it first aired and laughed and laughed.

I saw Neil and the Rutles play the Troubador in LA back in the mid 90s. Neil wore the Lennon green military clothes and the rest if the band had traditional 1964 suits.

I'm a musician who loves the Beatles and I saw The Rutles All You Need Is Cash on TV in the seventies and absolutely loved it!,I loved it so much I even went out and bought the album,God bless the band that started it all the Rutles! Bob

I watched SNL live that night when Lorne first announced that he had gotten the Rutles film. My buddy and I laughed our heads off. When the movie came out on TV we thought it was brilliant! Love the Rutles!

The Rultes music alone is absolutely fantastic. The drumming is as close to Ringo ad you could ever get.

I have to watch The Rutles at least twice a year or the universe doesn't seem quite right. It's brilliant!

They did the whole film for $250,000? Incredible, I mean, so many sets, costumes, wigs, extras, etc. I don’t know if that includes the music production, but even if it didn’t, that is extraordinarily efficient. I saw the special the first time it aired on American TV. I think not long before that, I saw “The Compleat Beatles” documentary, and “All you need is cash” just checked off scene after scene.

According to Eric Idle, George, John, Ringo, Yoko and Linda loved it, but Paul didn't. Eric believed that this was down to the way he played the character, picking up on Paul's idiosyncrasies and goofiness, something that Linda probably found endearing but Paul might be a little sensitive about.

I loved it from the first time I saw it. Eric and Neil’s contributions were great. But so many cameos by so many made this little film. Love the music too. 😂

DNAYS and Nice Time were my favorite programs when I was 6. Never did me any harm.

I was lucky to see Innes in 2018 while he was in San Diego discussing an upcoming tour.

If only Leggy hadn't tragically accepted that teaching post in Australia. History was forever altered on that day.

'goose-step mama' love it.

I love The Beatles nearly as much as I love The Rutles....

After all these years I still say that line, shocked & stunned. I haven't watched Ruttles in years

The Rutles were the inspiration for The Beatles.

The only thing keeping this from being the best "mockumentary" ever made is that you have to know the Beatles histroy, or you won't get the jokes.

I taped it on a VHS back in 1997/98 or so, was 14/15. It has a special place in my heart and soul. Lost track on how many times I'v seen it. I regulare listen the sound track. And I can't hear songs like, Help, Walrus or Get Back withiout tryi g to fit in the words from, Ouch, Piggy and Get up and go.

"It wasn't the first of a series, it was just something that happened at that time." Oh, those wonderful days before Hollywood would have insisted on building the Rutles Cinematic Universe.

Neil is one of those talents that are few and far between. His Ron Nasty character stole my heart...but I've always been partial to John Lennon "bad boy" type..

Absolutely brilliant, so loved the Rutles, tribute to the greatest band ever!

Legendary and brilliant. A once in a lifetime convergence of talents, attitudes, and enthusiasm.

The All You Need is Cash film was a shot for shot parody of a documentary called The Compleat Beatles. Watching that beforehand makes AYNIC twice as funny.

I saw this in the mid 80s first time and I've watched it at least a dozen times after that but I never knew there was so much improvisation. Thank you for uploading.

Fabulous! I had the Rutles film on VHS (later on dvd, slightly longer). My brother bought the LP in 1978 or so. I was a massive Beatles fan starting around 77/78. He gave me the LP and I was well away. I'm going to watch this again in the next few days. Really enjoyed this, cheers.

My favourite pastiche film ever…so clever…so charismatic and just very very funny.

Thought it was fantastic when it aired, and still do. Very clever, and entertaining piece of work.

Some of The Rutles tracks appeared on bootleg albums by The Beatles...that shows what a good job Neil Innes did on The Rutles album / film to get piss takes were the real thing!

They say that almost nobody saw "All You Need Is Cash" when it first aired on NBC in 1978, but I watched it. I loved it then, and I love it even more now.

Very Stunned…

Great upload. Thank you and best wishes from a homesick Englishman making armour in a French forest. 🎶🏆🇬🇧

There's one aspect of this wonderful parody of the Beatles (or was it the other way round?) that has lost currency over the years - a new audience will get its Beatle parallels (provided they know the Beatles story; if they don't - this is almost identical and probably suffices), but you had to be there in the late 1970s to get the point of the 'at great expense' interviews with the old bluesmen - as that had nothing to do with a Beatles parody - but was based on a UK show called 'All You Need is Love-A History of Popular Music' that was airing at the same time - and did exactly what you see in the Rutles film - semi-incoherent and almost completely pointless interviews, filmed, on location, and at great expense in the Mississippi delta and/or New Orleans. No one watching was ever sure why, but the series wasn't going to abandon the (expensive) footage just because it was pointless. Check it out (if you can find it) - and those bits mirroring it in the Rutles documentary make a lot more sense!

Thank you so much for presenting this documentary. The Rutles -the acting and the songs- were very convincing. I believe that "Cheese and onions" was once believed it to be a John Lennon's song. Peaceandlove.

No one did a better send up or ever will.

Love it, SNL meets Monty Python with Neil's great music

What a treat! Thank you for uploading this treasure. It's 'The Rutles' world, we just live in it...

Eric and Gary must've known it was meant to be when they noticed their production name would be Idle-Weis! Chastity must've appreciated that, anyway...

I remember it well. Thanks for uploading.

Lovely movie with so many historical references that can be investigated and compared if one like.

Dude. I love Gwen Taylor, and I didn't know that was her in the tub. Wow! It does not look like Iris Mountbatten or any of the RWT characters Chastity is so skinny. I'm blown away.

Way better than Spinal Tap with some killer lines, my favourite being - 'there was a plethora of lawsuits - Barry sued Dirk, Stig and Nasty - Nasty sued Dirk, Stig and Barry - Dirk sued Barry, Stig and Nasty and Stig sued himself accidentally.

Nice work! Thanks for doing this.

The cost to make that today would be huge. I couldn't see at TV company taking a punt on something like this now. To think this was made with good old fashioned old school filmmaking - no CGI or AI. The way they match the film stock alone is amazing. They must have worked so hard to get this end result. I'd like to know how long it took Neil to write and record the songs.

if there hadn't been a rutles,would there have been a spinal tap? rob reiner gets a lot of praise for his "mockumentary", but really "all you need is cash" started it all.

The claim is that the first actors in a Rock n Roll Vid that appeared in the parody were actors from Nervana - Smells Like Teenage Spirit appearing in Weird Al Yankovic's version. ERIC IDLE and friends THE RUTTLES did it first! EDIT: FFS, they had George helping them!

Wonderful

20:55 He says " how close we come to pulling a Twilight Zone" in reference to the helicopter that landed on Vic Morrow and two children while shooting a scene for the movie. Morrow and one of the children were decapitated, and the other child crushed.

0:22 "The Pre-Pythons" reminds me of course of "The Pre-Fab Four".

Get Back or Get up and go? So funny! 🏃 Oops wrong way! ▶

I've been looking for a long time, thanks

the late 70s is when i used to watch "saturday night live" regularly. i remember eric idle hosting but don't remember any "rutles" clips on that show. it makes me wonder how much influence idle and the rutles had on belushi and akroyd creating the "blues brothers." i can imagine the two sitting therre watching the "rutles" clip and saying - man, if eric idle can make a success out of a fictional band SO CAN WE! i first saw "the rultes: all you need is cash" on american cable movie channels. probably in the early 80s. as a massive beatles' afficionado i thought the rutles was an excellent parody and still do. got the film in my digital movie collection. neil innes' musical and acting contributions to the monty python tv shows and films is undeniable. along with the contributions of carol cleveland and connie booth. and it seems, george harrison also was a wonderful financial contributor. no one ever seems to notice george's short cameo in "the life of brian." and his appearence in "the rutles" was really cool.

The Beatles might never come home from Hamburg uf theyd had their "Goose-Step Mama."

One of my favourite mockumentarys, ever. I know the sound track album by heart. So I sang along during this excellent documentary😀 I was also pleasantly surprised, a few years ago, to find a lot of "new" Rutles songs available. Check out Archaeology , if you're a fan.

I met Paul. Having seen this I knew not to mention the Rutles. Thanks! (True story)

The music is fab

Eric Idle said that Gwen Taylor was the finest comedy actress he ever worked with "she could do anything" Maybe her talents were wasted on Duty Free (although she was by far the funniest thing in it)

Innes could easily have been in the Fabs, he's that good.

The beauty of cult films and TV shows is that they don't create an impact initially, but once they gain momentum they are totally unstoppable and outlast the popular stuff of their respective eras. Family Guy was cancelled twice in its early years but look at it afterwards.

Iris Mountbatten for President! Or something.

the tightest trousers in the game

To hear Ricky Fataar talk (or was that dubbed?) is a thrill.

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@27:52 i can watch this a hundred times and it gets funnier every time 😂

I have the Rutles LP. cheese and onions.

We used to watch DNAYS when I was little. I loved David Jason and Denise Coffey and the wonderful Bonzo's. I used to find the young men in dark suits (Eric, Terry and MIchael) rather annoying. Don't ask me why!! I was only 7!!

I for one thought it was brilliant

Gwen Taylor seriously needed to be in alot more stuff

I think it was trousers

"Only the band the Beatles could have been," A. Partridge.

Hello. Where did this little film come from please? Is it an extra from a DVD or Blu-Ray release if All You Need Is Cash?

Eric covering for Neil on “Love is a Cylindrical Piano” on Do Not Adjust Your Set was the stuff of…I don’t know, but his piano playing fakery was so dull and uninspiring that he was a riot to watch.

Strange Eric was not interviewed.

Strange that Eric Idle didn’t participate in this.

What did John & Paul think if the Rutles?

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i recall this was a TV program aired in 1978 then came Spinal Tap. Was a good time for comedy. SCTV, Saturday Night Live. Everything was very cynical back then but people were cynical as well. At least there was critical thinking. Not like today.

A man of no fixed hairstyle!!!!

Would Spinal Tap have been made if this movie wasn't?

Considering that the entire special was the brainchild of Eric Idle, I am surprised that he is not interviewed in this documentary of the mockumentary.

they were a huge influence on the beatles.

What do you get when you cross The Beatles with Monty Python?