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…
Browsing: Beach Party movies
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)…
“Those surf ridin’, skin divin’, sky jumpin’, drag racin’, beach bashin’ boys and their bikini beauties . . . in a blast of a beach…
“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 anthropology professor named Robert Sutwell (Robert Cummings) and his secretary Marianne (Dorothy Malone)…
For many years, the idea of creating films specifically for young people was not commonplace. Before the 1950s, adults did not quite grasp that there…
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…
Gardner ‘Ding’ Pruitt III (James Darren) is a wealthy college playboy who prides himself on being a romance expert, attracting the admiration of every girl…
Nicknamed ‘The Young Sinatra’ and ‘Golden Boy’ in his hey-day, Frankie Avalon was born Frankie Avallone of Italian stock, in Philadelphia on 18 September 1940. He…
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.…
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…
Selma (Noreen Corcoran), Cynthia (Linda Marshall), and Betty (Nancy Spry) are trying to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save their sorority house (Alpha Beta).…
“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…
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…
The original Beach Party (1963) was a big teen success, so the producers came up with this lacklustre sequel, once again starring Frankie Avalon as Frankie…
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…
One of those kitsch 1960s Californian beach party movies, which began with Beach Party (1963). In this one, Tommy Kirk plays a Martian scout (“Go-Go”) sent to…
Three All-American boys meet three All-American girls while they are in Oahu, Hawaii to surf the big waves at Waimea Bay. The guys must face…
An Austrian-Yugoslavian attempt at a frothy Beach Party-style ski movie with music and songs by AIP’s Hemric and Styner duo who did the music for…
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…