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Critical Essay by John Seelye
There is, I would say, very little of the censor laws' "redeeming social significance" [in Help!]. Unlike Hard Day's Night, which by means of ...
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Critical Essay by Peter Harcourt
[In] Help!, the most wonderful transformations of reality occur.
Richard Lester's style is one of endless enterprise, of an apparently inexhaustible zaniness th...
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Critical Essay by Alfred R. Sugg
[The] fact that no one has taken Mr. Lester to task for creating a fiction-nonfiction … indicates that the film—unlike literature—is a basically a...
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Critical Essay by John Seelye
