Release Date

01 Jan, 1988

Runtime

00:59: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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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Actors

Frank Zappa

Tony Palmer

Phyllis Smith Altenhaus

Dick Barber

Theodore Bikel

Jimmy Carl Black

Peter Bos

Napoleon Murphy Brock

Phyllis Bryn-Julson

Warren Cuccurullo

Pamela Des Barres

George Duke

Aynsley Dunbar

Roy Estrada

Bruce Fowler

Tom Fowler

Bunk Gardner

Jerry D. Good

Elgar Howarth

Howard Kaylan

Roelof Kiers

Crew

Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Jill Silverthorne

Booey Kober

Raymond M. Bush

Kent Nagano