The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

59m

Documentary Comedy Music

7.5

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

Phyllis Smith Altenhaus

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Carl Black

Napoleon Murphy Brock

Self (archive footage)

Phyllis Bryn-Julson

Warren Cuccurullo

Pamela Des Barres

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

London Symphony Orchestra

Itself (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Janet Neville-Ferguson

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Self (archive footage)

Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood

Chester Thompson

Self (archive footage)

Arthur Dyer Tripp III

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Moon Unit Zappa

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Sarina-Marie Volman

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Director, Writer, Producer, Music

Raymond M. Bush

Jill Silverthorne

Associate Producer