When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965)

Danny Churchill (Harve Presnell) is a young heir to a vast fortune who drives west to attend a college after causing a minor scandal back east. En route, he meets Ginger Gray (Connie Francis in her final cinema film), an attractive Pony Express mail delivery woman in rural Nevada.

Ginger’s lovable father (Frank Faylen) is about to lose his ranch due to being heavily in debt with some Reno gangster types as a result of his compulsive gambling.

To help Ginger and her father get out of debt, Danny – with the help of his college friends – turns the ranch into a motel for impending divorcees.

Meanwhile, Danny courts Ginger but tries to keep his past reputation a secret while his spiteful gold-digging ex-girlfriend Tess (Sue Ane Langdon) relentlessly pursues him and his wealth.

Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits has a few stilted lines as an “exchange student” and performs a tune or two with the band in a nod to the British Invasion.

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs do Monkey See, Monkey Do but are interrupted and upstaged by guys in drag doing the frug. Even more bizarrely, Liberace makes an appearance (performing Aruba Liberace).

There was evidently some cost-cutting taking place since painted backdrops and blatant sets abound, not convincing anyone and rendering this all the more like a stage show.

Ginger Gray
Connie Francis
Danny Churchill
Harve Presnell
Herman’s Hermits
Themselves
Louis Armstrong
Himself
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Themselves
Liberace
Himself
Tess Raleigh
Sue Ane Langdon
Bill Dennis
Fred Clark
Phin Gray
Frank Faylen
Sam
Joby Baker
Kate
Hortense Petra
Lank
Stanley Adams
Pete
Romo Vincent
Delilah
Susan Holloway
Mr Stokes
Russell Collins
Dean of Colby
Bill Quinn

Director
Alvin Ganzer