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    Beach Party (1963)

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    “It’s what happens when 10,000 kids meet on 5,000 Beach Blankets!”

    An anthropologist studying the sex habits of young people finds himself in the middle of a pie-throwing brawl.

    The first and most famous of the Beach Movies is something of a curiosity for the inclusion of Dick Dale and the Del-Tones who sang the title tune for A Swingin’ Affair earlier in the year.

    Dale was the beach bum who played guitar and surfed on his own but finally rose to fame 32 years later with the hit soundtrack for Pulp Fiction (1994).

    Beach Party was a bold departure for American-International, featuring some famous (and talented) actors, and being shot in flaming colour. The budget was also considerably larger than anything they had done in the black and white/leather jacket days with movies such as Dragstrip Girl.

    The movie was followed by four sequels. The first sequel, Muscle Beach Party (1964), had Dick Dale, Brian Wilson and Stevie Wonder. The second, Bikini Beach (1964), also had Little Stevie Wonder making his debut with hit song Fingertips.

    How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965), featured a performance by The Kingsmen of Louie, Louie fame, while The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966), featured the Bobby Fuller Four.

    The surfer kids also put on their clothes for Ski Party (1965), featuring Lesley Gore, James Brown and The Hondells.

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    Bob Cummings
    Marianne
    Dorothy Malone
    Frankie
    Frankie Avalon
    Dolores
    Annette Funicello
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    Eva Six
    Eric Von Zipper
    Harvey Lembeck
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    Jody McCrea
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    Morey Amsterdam
    Ken
    John Ashley
    Rhonda
    Valora Noland
    Tom
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    J.D.
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    The Ratz
    Jerry Brutsche
    Bob Harvey
    John Macchia
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    William Asher

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