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60鈥檚 film pioneer Richard Lester tells 5live about the making of The Beatles second feature film Help!, released 50 years ago.

The Superman Director explains why they chose to make a comedy caper, rather than a fictionalised documentary about the band.

鈥淲e didn鈥檛 want to particularly delve into other sides of Beatles life. Their out of hours experience would have been X-rated, some of their interesting habits could have got them, and me, in prison.鈥�

He also remembers the frenzy around the band, filming on location, thousands of fans would turn up and the band were harassed so much by the press that one of drummer Ringo Starr鈥檚 eyebrows went white.

This clip is originally from 5 live Daily on Friday 17 April 2015.