The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

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.

Documentary Comedy Music

Frank Zappa

(Self)

Tony Palmer

(Self)

Phyllis Smith Altenhaus

(Self (archive footage))

Dick Barber

(Self (archive footage))

Theodore Bikel

(Self)

Jimmy Carl Black

(Self)

Peter Bos

(Self)

Napoleon Murphy Brock

(Self (archive footage))

Phyllis Bryn-Julson

(Self)

Warren Cuccurullo

(Self)

Pamela Des Barres

(Self (archive footage))

George Duke

(Self)

Aynsley Dunbar

(Self)

Roy Estrada

(Self (archive footage))

Bruce Fowler

(Self (archive footage))

Tom Fowler

(Self (archive footage))

Bunk Gardner

(Self (archive footage))

Jerry D. Good

(Self (archive footage) (as Jerry Goode))

Elgar Howarth

(Self)

Howard Kaylan

(Self)

Roelof Kiers

(Self)

Martin Lickert

(Self)

London Symphony Orchestra

(Itself (archive footage) (as The London Symphony Orchestra))

Al Malkin

(Self (archive footage))

Keith Moon

(Self (archive footage))

Janet Neville-Ferguson

(Self)

Lucy Offerall

(Self)

Don Preston

(Self)

Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra

(Themselves (archive footage))

Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood

(Self)

Jeff Simmons

(Self)

Ringo Starr

(Self)

Chester Thompson

(Self (archive footage))

Arthur Dyer Tripp III

(Self (archive footage))

Ruth Underwood

(Self (archive footage))

Dweezil Zappa

(Self (archive footage))

Moon Unit Zappa

(Self (archive footage))

Gail Zappa

(Self (archive footage))

Ian Underwood

(Self)

Mark Volman

(Self)

Sarina-Marie Volman

(Self)

Ike Willis

(Self)