The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film
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Budget 70 GBP Duration Language English | 50% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Short, Comedy Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Richard LesterPeter Sellers Release date November 1959 Cast Similar movies Peter Sellers directed The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film and appears in Penny Points to Paradise | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film is a 1959 British sketch comedy short film directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers, in collaboration with Bruce Lacey. The film was released in 1959.
It was filmed over two Sundays in 1959, at a cost of around £70 (including £5 for the rental of a field).
It was nominated for an Academy Award, but did not win. It was a favourite of The Beatles, which led to Lester being hired to direct A Hard Day's Night and then Help!, in which Lacey makes a guest appearance as George Harrison's gardener in the opening sequence.
The short film has been made available as a special feature on several home video releases of A Hard Day's Night. It is also featured in The Unknown Peter Sellers and a BFI released collection of rarely-seen films from Bruce Lacey's career entitled The Lacey Rituals.
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film WikipediaThe Running Jumping %26 Standing Still Film Rotten Tomatoes