William Asher, the director of American International’s first three beach movies, was once asked about the company’s shift from gang-wars to beach bashes and said: “our audiences welcome clean sex. They are bored with juvenile delinquency.”
The chicks all looked like centrefolds from Nugget or Escapade and the guys all straight out of the Hardy Boys. And of course, no one smoked, drank or touched each other (except when playing volleyball).
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