Released on a double bill with Bikini Beach, A Swingin’ Summer is the tale of a swingin’ group of youngsters who take over the dance pavilion at a…

This run-of-the-mill Beach Movie introduces California college student Lee Sullivan (Sherry Jackson) who has been left a beach house in her late uncle’s will and…

College girl Merritt Andrews (Dolores Hart) hits the road and drives down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for Spring Break with her girlfriends – smart Tuggle…

Jeff Forrester (William Wellman Jr) inherits a ski lodge at Lake Tahoe. With the help of his friend and promotions director Danny Frazer (James Stacy) and…

One of those kitsch 1960s Californian beach party movies which began with Beach Party (1963). In this one, Tommy Kirk plays a Martian scout sent to Earth…

A spy’s butler plans to follow in his employer’s footsteps by tackling the case of a mad scientist at the beach. Out Of Sight was one…

Selma (Noreen Corcoran), Cynthia (Linda Marshall), and Betty (Nancy Spry) are trying to raise money to save their sorority house (Alpha Beta) when they run into…

This amiable, if vastly inferior take on Some Like it Hot (1959) from American International is set in a ski resort where college chums Frankie Avalon…

“It’s the “Cycle Rats” vs “The Bikini’s” on bikes – Thrills and Spills in the wildest motorcycle race ever run” With Frankie away on Naval…

The original Beach Party (1963) was a big teen success, so the producers came up with this lacklustre sequel. When a new gym – managed by…

The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini was a wild beach party romp in which a motorcycle gang gets involved with a Frankenstein’s monster type at a haunted mansion.…

“The Beach Party gang goes sky diving” This 1965 addition to the beach movie franchise from American International Pictures (AIP) has singing star Sugar Kane…

“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…

“Those surf ridin’, skin divin’, sky jumpin’, drag racin’, beach bashin’ boys and their bikini beauties . . . in a blast of a beach…

It’s hard to imagine who Lyndall Hobbs thought would love her parody of early sixties beach movies like How To Stuff A Wild Bikini (1965) and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) -…

Born on 22 October 1942, Annette Funicello became an overnight sensation in 1955 when she first appeared on a new afternoon TV show, at the…

The rise of Surf Music in the early 60s, coupled with the general surfing craze that was sweeping the USA, inevitably began to spawn movies,…

Another surf-and-sand-and-teenagers episode from American International where, once again, Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) and Frankie (Frankie Avalon) supply the romance and the songs. Frankie’s rival…

Sixteen-year-old Frances Lawrence (pert blonde, blue-eyed screen newcomer Sandra Dee at her most innocent) is the film’s title character, christened ‘Gidget’ by her friends at…

Mike Samson (Tommy Kirk), the big man on his southern California beach and the object of desire of every girl on the beach, falls for…