The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
01/01/1988
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.
Movie Information
Frank Zappa
as Self
Tony Palmer
as Self
Phyllis Smith Altenhaus
as Self (archive footage)
Dick Barber
as Self (archive footage)
Theodore Bikel
as Self
Jimmy Carl Black
as Self
Peter Bos
as Self
Napoleon Murphy Brock
as Self (archive footage)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson
as Self
Warren Cuccurullo
as Self
Pamela Des Barres
as Self (archive footage)
George Duke
as Self
Aynsley Dunbar
as Self
Roy Estrada
as Self (archive footage)
Bruce Fowler
as Self (archive footage)
Bunk Gardner
as Self (archive footage)
Jerry D. Good
as Self (archive footage) (as Jerry Goode)
Elgar Howarth
as Self
Howard Kaylan
as Self
Roelof Kiers
as Self
Martin Lickert
as Self
London Symphony Orchestra
as Itself (archive footage) (as The London Symphony Orchestra)
Al Malkin
as Self (archive footage)
Keith Moon
as Self (archive footage)
Janet Neville-Ferguson
as Self
Lucy Offerall
as Self
Don Preston
as Self
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
as Themselves (archive footage)
Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood
as Self
Jeff Simmons
as Self
Ringo Starr
as Self
Chester Thompson
as Self (archive footage)
Arthur Dyer Tripp III
as Self (archive footage)
Ruth Underwood
as Self (archive footage)
Dweezil Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Moon Unit Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Gail Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Ian Underwood
as Self
Mark Volman
as Self
Sarina-Marie Volman
as Self
Ike Willis
as Self
Tom Fowler
as Self (archive footage)
