Nothing Is Real - Season 3 Episode 7 - The Films of Ringo Starr, or, Ringo Movie Starr

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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S03E07: The Films of Ringo Starr, or, Ringo Movie Starr

After the Beatles first film, A Hard Day’s Night, came out in 1964, the general consensus was that Ringo was destined for the silver screen - all he had to do was act naturally.

Between 1968 and 1981 he made a collection of movies that managed to prove that everyone right, and also wrong.

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0:00.0	Nothing is Real, a Beatles podcast, is powered by ACAST.
0:08.0	Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles.
0:23.2	My name is Jason Carty.
0:24.7	My name is Stephen Corkroft.
0:26.3	And we're live on tape from Dublin and Belfast.
0:29.2	Well, everybody, the day has finally come.
0:31.6	Today we're going to talk about the films of Mr. Ringo Starr, movie star star himself and Oscar winner, Stephen.
0:37.6	He's an Oscar winner.
0:38.3	Yes, indeed.
0:38.9	But not for his acting.
0:41.2	No.
0:41.7	Not for his singing either.
0:44.1	No, just for being in the room.
0:46.3	In the room.
0:47.0	For Let It Be.
0:48.5	And even though we've had lots of requests from people to talk about a hard day's night or help,
0:53.2	we're going straight to the important movies here where we're going to talk about the movies where Ringo is,
0:58.3	his name is up on the marquee. Yeah. Even, yeah. Yeah. If these movies even made it to a cinema.
1:05.8	I was going to say it's top billing, even though he's not necessarily the top leading actor, but
1:10.3	No, but it's an interesting body of work.
1:13.1	And I think it's fair to say that this is going to be a bit of a laidback look at Ringo's movie career.
1:18.9	But, you know, cometh the hour, cometh the man.
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