| All You Need Is Cash | |
|---|---|
 DVD cover | |
| Written by | Eric Idle |
| Directed by | Eric Idle Gary Weis |
| Starring | Eric Idle Neil Innes John Halsey Ricky Fataar Michael Palin George Harrison Bianca Jagger John Belushi Dan Aykroyd Gilda Radner Bill Murray |
| Narrated by | Eric Idle |
| Music by | Neil Innes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producers | Gary Weis Craig Kellem Lorne Michaels |
| Cinematography | Gary Weis |
| Editor | Aviva Slesin |
| Running time | 76 minutes |
| Production company | Broadway Video |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | 22 March 1978 |
| Network | BBC2 |
| Release | 27 March 1978 |
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All You Need Is Cash (also known as The Rutles) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) the career of a fictitious English rock group called the Rutles.[1] As TV Guide described it, the group's resemblance to the Beatles is "purely – and satirically – intentional".[2]
The film was co-produced by the production companies of Eric Idle and Lorne Michaels, and it was directed by Idle and Gary Weis. It was first broadcast on 22 March 1978 on NBC, earning the lowest[2][3] ratings of any show on American prime time network television that week, though those who did watch it gave almost unanimously good reviews.[2] It did much better in the ratings when it premiered in the UK on BBC2 on 27 March 1978.[4]
- ^ "All You Need Is Cash". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ a b c "The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash - On Television". rutlemania.org.
- ^ "| EW.com". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 7 January 2009. Retrieved 22 March 2005.
- ^ "The Rutles". 27 March 1978. p. 35 – via BBC Genome.