The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988)
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.
Director: Frank Zappa
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Frank Zappa as Self |
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Tony Palmer as Self |
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Phyllis Smith Altenhaus as Self (archive footage) |
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Dick Barber as Self (archive footage) |
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Theodore Bikel as Self |
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Jimmy Carl Black as Self |
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Peter Bos as Self |
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Napoleon Murphy Brock as Self (archive footage) |
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Phyllis Bryn-Julson as Self |
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Warren Cuccurullo as Self |
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Pamela Des Barres as Self (archive footage) |
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George Duke as Self |
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Aynsley Dunbar as Self |
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Roy Estrada as Self (archive footage) |
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Bruce Fowler as Self (archive footage) |
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Bunk Gardner as Self (archive footage) |
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Jerry D. Good as Self (archive footage) |
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Elgar Howarth as Self |
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Howard Kaylan as Self |
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Roelof Kiers as Self |
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Martin Lickert as Self |
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London Symphony Orchestra as Itself (archive footage) |
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Al Malkin as Self (archive footage) |
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Keith Moon as Self (archive footage) |
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Janet Neville-Ferguson as Self |
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Lucy Offerall as Self |
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Don Preston as Self |
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as Self (archive footage) |
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Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood as Self |
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Jeff Simmons as Self |
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Ringo Starr as Self |
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Chester Thompson as Self (archive footage) |
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Arthur Dyer Tripp III as Self (archive footage) |
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Ruth Underwood as Self (archive footage) |
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Dweezil Zappa as Self (archive footage) |
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Moon Unit Zappa as Self (archive footage) |
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Gail Zappa as Self (archive footage) |
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Ian Underwood as Self |
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Mark Volman as Self |
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Sarina-Marie Volman as Self |
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Ike Willis as Self |
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Tom Fowler as Self (archive footage) |
| Directing | Frank Zappa | Director |
| Sound | Frank Zappa | Music |
| Production | Jill Silverthorne | Associate Producer |
| Production | Frank Zappa | Producer |
| Sound | Kent Nagano | Conductor |
| Editing | Booey Kober | Editor |
| Writing | Frank Zappa | Writer |
| Editing | Raymond M. Bush | Editor |
