The Mothers of Invention Theodore Bikel Ringo Starr Keith Moon
Music by
Frank Zappa
Production companies
Murakami-Wolf-Swenson Bizarre Productions [1]
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date
October 29, 1971 (1971-10-29) (Beverly Hills)[2]
Running time
98 minutes
Countries
United States United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$679,000[3]
Box office
Under $1 million[3]
200 Motels is a 1971 surrealist musical film written and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, and featuring music by Zappa. An international co-production of United States and the United Kingdom, the film stars the Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon and Ringo Starr.[4]
A soundtrack album was released in the same year, with a slightly different selection of music.
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^"200 Motels – Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
^ abLevine, Paul G. (Jan 13, 1980). "Rock Stars Film it Their Way". Los Angeles Times. p. m6.
^Richie Unterberger. "200 Motels – Frank Zappa". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 20 January 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
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she appeared in the UK premiere of her late father's orchestral work 200Motels at the Royal Festival Hall, London, playing the role of Groupie 2 (Lucy)...
(1970), which was followed by the double-album soundtrack to the movie 200Motels (1971), featuring the Mothers, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ringo...
2013, they have been billed as Martha Davis and The Motels. The first incarnation of The Motels formed in Berkeley, California in 1971. Lisa Brenneis...
appeared on the soundtrack to Zappa's humorous pseudo-documentary film, 200Motels. In 2015, Kaylan and Volman celebrated their 50th year, touring and performing...
tracks on five albums, toured to support them, and appeared in the film 200Motels, a semi-documentary film directed by Zappa. They were compelled to use...
"Playground Psychotics". Pons portrayed himself in Zappa's 1971 surrealist film 200Motels, starring the members of the Mothers Of Invention. In 1973 Pons left the...
fellow drummer Keith Moon. He starred as Larry the Dwarf in Frank Zappa's 200Motels (1971). His voice is also featured in Harry Nilsson's animated film The...
pursued a career as an actress, appearing in movies (including Zappa's 200Motels), doing commercials, and playing a recurring role on the soap opera Search...
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also appeared in Playboy's classic August 1976 Helmut Newton pictorial "200Motels, or How I Spent My Summer Vacation", from which 11 original prints were...
well as certain subsequent Zappa albums. He also appeared in the films 200Motels, Video from Hell and Uncle Meat. Sherwood was born in Arkansas City, Kansas...
East – June 1971, and Just Another Band from L.A., as well as the film 200Motels. He filled in for Flo and Eddie when they left the Zappa group after an...
(1964), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), and 200Motels (1971). For his portrayal of Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones (1958)...
with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the world premiere of Frank Zappa's 200Motels under the baton of Maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen. She played the role of Lucy...
Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention, around the time of the film 200Motels. The live material on Playground Psychotics is interspersed with excerpts...
Mothers. Black was also addressed as such by Theodore Bikel in the film 200Motels. He has been credited on some Mothers albums as playing "drums, vocals...
Caveman (1981). In 1971, he starred as Larry the Dwarf in Frank Zappa's 200Motels and was featured in Harry Nilsson's animated film The Point! He co-starred...
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Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, which previously worked on The Point! and Frank Zappa's 200Motels, both from 1971, RLR Associates of New York City was another production...
known, recorded albums with Frank Zappa's band, appeared in Zappa's film 200Motels in 1971, and later released a series of records. Kaylan and Volman sang...
"Night School"'s video featured clips from the making of his 1971 film 200Motels, and "G-Spot Tornado"'s video featured footage Zappa shot in the early...
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