Beach Party

I was five when this movie came out in '63, and didn't see it until a TV showing in the mid '70's. It was already dated and unreal at THAT point. I just caught a second viewing on TCM and I... Full review

While not the best in the Frankie-Annette beach movies they made with their supporting cast of recurring characters including villain Von Zipper, lovable leader of his "stupid" motorcycle gang, dim-witted Deadhead and the human dancing machine Candy Johnson, it's still... Full review

Before there was Baywatch we had the Beach Party movies and this one was the one that started it all.Robert Cummings must have seen Lover Come Back where Rock Hudson had a full growth of beard and Doris Day mistook... Full review

Even people who HATE these movies, who won't even watch them as "schlock", probably have second thoughts when it comes to Eric Von Zipper and his Rat Pack. Which is easy for me to say, since I've always been attached... Full review

Okay, I'm a sucker for ALL the old "Beach Party" movies, starring Frankie and Annette. How 'bout that? They're like Fred and Ginger, Hope and Crosby and William Powell and Myrna Loy: They're icons! This movie, the ORIGINAL "Beach Party,"... Full review

A must have for your surfing movie collection, a piece of cinematic kitsch as well.The surfing scenes (a montage of various places, apparently in SoCal) are all too brief, but worthwhile.The fake-surfing and stunt-surfing are a hoot and leave you... Full review

Bob Cummings (offensive in nearly every movie I've seen him in) acquits himself quite nicely here as nerdy professor studying the mating habits of today's teenagers, eventually finding himself sort-of attracted to busty-but-innocent Annette Funicello. Frankie Avalon and Annette get... Full review

This is a fun little film. Bob Cummings stars as a professor who has taken a beach house so that he can observe the sexual habits of the healthy young kids around him.Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello--in her first feature... Full review

This is the first and some would say best(other than Beach Blanket Bingo) of the series.Annette and Frankie are on their way to a cozy weekend beach vacation,but Annette has invited the whole gang!!!Frankie is mad at her rejection of... Full review

But when William Asher (producer and director of TV's Bewitched ) was approached to direct, he wanted Beach Party to represent all the kids out there who weren't having a particularly hard time adjusting to adolescence, all the suburban kids who played by the rules, who enjoyed their carefree summer vacations away from school, and who engaged in the same kinds of age-old, yet essentially innocent, sexual give-and-take games that "teenagers" Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello acted out on the screens. ... Full Review

These are perfect films to waste a Sunday afternoon with.....The joys of the films include seeing footage of legendary musical acts taking part as guest stars, including the Kingsmen, Dick Dale and his Del Tones....The Beach Party films are a remarkable example of the camp released in the '60s to cash in on the then-exploding surfing craze.... ... Full Review

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