Home Movies TV Series Search Sign in

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

7.5 59 mins Documentary   Comedy   Music   1988
Director(s): Frank Zappa

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.

Casts of The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

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

Peter Bos

as Self

Napoleon Murphy Brock

as Self (archive footage)

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)

Elgar Howarth

as Self

Howard Kaylan

as Self

Roelof Kiers

as Self

Martin Lickert

as Self

London Symphony Orchestra

as Itself (archive footage)

Al Malkin

as Self (archive footage)

Keith Moon

as Self (archive footage)

Lucy Offerall

as Self

Don Preston

as Self

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

as Self (archive footage)

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

Ike Willis

as Self

Tom Fowler

as Self (archive footage)

You might also like