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Release Date: 1971

Cast: Ruth Underwood, Janet Neville-Ferguson, Miss Lucy, George Duke, Ian Underwood, Theodore Bikel, Mark Volman, Aynsley Dunbar, Ringo Starr, Don Preston, Howard Kaylan, Martin Lickert ...MORE

Cast: Ruth Underwood, Janet Neville-Ferguson, Miss Lucy, George Duke, Ian Underwood, Theodore Bikel, Mark Volman, Aynsley Dunbar, Ringo Starr, Don Preston, Howard Kaylan, Martin Lickert, Pamela Des Barres, Dick Barber, Keith Moon, Jimmy Carl Black ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Surrealism, Rockumentary, Road Movie, Musical, Fantasy

200 Motels is a 1971 American-British musical surrealist film cowritten and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer and starring The Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel and Ringo Starr. The film covers a loose storyline about The Mothers of Invention going crazy in the small town Centerville. A soundtrack album was released in the same year. The film deals loosely with life on the road as a rock musician. The Mothers of Invention go crazy in the small town Centerville, and bassist Jeff quits the group, as did his real life counterpart, Jeff Simmons, who left the group before the film... MORE

200 Motels is a 1971 American-British musical surrealist film cowritten and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer and starring The Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel and Ringo Starr. The film covers a loose storyline about The Mothers of Invention going crazy in the small town Centerville. A soundtrack album was released in the same year. The film deals loosely with life on the road as a rock musician. The Mothers of Invention go crazy in the small town Centerville, and bassist Jeff quits the group, as did his real life counterpart, Jeff Simmons, who left the group before the film began shooting and was replaced by actor Martin Lickert for the film. The style of the film has been compared to a "surrealistic documentary". In 1970, Frank Zappa formed a new version of The Mothers of Invention which included British drummer Aynsley Dunbar, jazz keyboardist George Duke, Ian Underwood, Jeff Simmons (bass, rhythm guitar), and three members of The Turtles: bass player Jim Pons, and singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, who, due to persistent legal and contractual problems, adopted the stage name "The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie", or "Flo & Eddie". Zappa began writing a film for his LESS