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[scarlett]

A miniaturized Sir Paul McCartney is wearing flesh-colored bathing trunks during his brief (no pun intended) "nude scene" in "The Exciting Adventures of Paul On The Floor". The discarded chewing gum wrapper which he uses to wrap around himself as a towel is clearly labelled "Wrigley's Spearmint Gum".

[liam]

While filming the scene where he had to jump off of a boat, Sir Ringo Starr admitted that he couldn't swim so they worked an exclamation of "I can't swim!" into the movie.

[duane]

Victor Spinetti, who played one of the bumbling scientists, also appeared in two other Beatles movies. This was Welsh actor Spinetti's second time playing opposite The Beatles, having portrayed the uppity television director in A Hard Day's Night (1964). He was a personal favorite actor of The Beatles, who asked him to appear in A Hard Day's Night (1964) after seeing one of his theatre performances. (According to Spinetti, George Harrison told him, "You've gotta be in all our films. If you're not in them, me mum wouldn't come and see them, because she fancies you.") Two years after this movie, Spinetti showed up as an Army Sergeant in Magical Mystery Tour (1967).

[duane]

According to Sir Paul McCartney, the script was designed around their requests that the story involve them going to places like the Austrian Alps and the Bahamas because they had never been there before. (The Bahamas were also chosen because they were British territory, and allowed them a tax shelter.)

[leo]

The actors had sixteen days, meaning ten pages per day to memorize.

[liam]

One scene cut from the movie had George Harrison, disguised as Sir Ringo Starr, sitting in a treehouse.

[sandra]

The scene in which the Beatles rise up from the swimming pool was the first scene shot for the movie.

[kyle]

According to The Beatles, they were experimenting with marijuana at the time this movie was filmed. That explains why they flub a lot of their lines or their lines don't make much sense.

[scarlett]

While the Beatles are attempting to solve Sir Ringo Starr's ring problem at the jeweler's, George Harrison can be seen quietly shoplifting various jewels and slipping them into his overcoat pockets.

[kim]

When John Lennon and Sir Ringo Starr are walking along the sidewalk right before Ringo "posts his letter", they are reciting the first stanza of John's poem, "I Sat Belonely" from John's "In His Own Write".