
DocumentaryComedyMusic
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
📅 Friday, 1 January 1988⏱️ 59m
🎬 Directed by Frank Zappa
★ 7.3
★★★★★
TMDB Rating
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.
Cast & Crew

Frank Zappa
Self

Tony Palmer
Self
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Phyllis Smith Altenhaus
Self (archive footage)
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Dick Barber
Self (archive footage)

Theodore Bikel
Self
J
Jimmy Carl Black
Self
P
Peter Bos
Self

Napoleon Murphy Brock
Self (archive footage)
🎬 Directed byFrank Zappa
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