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Beach Party (1963) was the first of the Beach Party films, aimed at a teen audience. It was directed by William Asher and written by Lou Rusoff. The main actors included Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

Summary

The plot included an anthropologist, Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell (Robert Cummings) who was studying the wild dating habits of teenagers that hang out at the beach, and decides to court a young girl (Annette Funicello) so he can study the behaviour of her jealous boyfriend.

Cast

Robert Cummings .... Prof. Robert 'Bob' Orwell Sutwell (as Bob Cummings)

Dorothy Malone .... Marianne

Frankie Avalon .... Frankie

Annette Funicello .... Dolores/DeeDee

Morey Amsterdam .... Cappy

Harvey Lembeck .... Eric Von Zipper

Eva Six .... Ava

John Ashley .... Ken

Jody McCrea .... Deadhead

Dick Dale .... Himself (as Dick Dale and The Del Tones)

Andy Romano .... J.D. (Rat Pack member)

Jerry Brutsche .... Rat Pack member

Bob Harvey .... Rat Pack member

John Macchia .... Rat Pack member

Alberta Nelson .... Rat Pack member

Linda Rogers .... Rat Pack member

David Landfield .... Ed

Bob Payne .... Tom (as Bobby Payne)

Pam Colbert .... Surfer

Delores Wells .... Sue

Johnny Fain .... Surfer (as John Fain)

Valora Noland .... Rhonda

Meredith MacRae .... Beach girl

John Beach .... Beach boy

Lorrie Summers (as Lorie Summers)

Roger Bacon .... Tour guide

Luree Holmes (as Luree Nicholson)

Michael Nader .... Beach boy (as Mike Nader)

Laura Nicholson .... Beach girl

Mickey Dora .... Beach boy

Donna Russell .... Surfer

Ed Garner .... Surfer (as Eddie Garner)

Candy Johnson .... Perpetual motion dancer

Vincent Price .... Big Daddy

Crew

Directed by William Asher Writing credits Lou Rusoff

Produced by

Samuel Z. Arkoff .... executive producer

Robert Dillon .... associate producer

James H. Nicholson .... producer

Lou Rusoff .... producer

Original Music by Les Baxter

Trivia

Beach Party was intended as a low-budget parody of Elvis Presley's musical movies, but soon spawned into something more, making significantly more money than the studio expected. Six more films in the "Beach Party film" series were produced over the next few years.

The film introduced a running gag throughout most of the rest of the series, when Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) learns a special nerve touch to the head, (known as The Himalayan Time Suspension Technique), that puts a person into a frozen trance that he calls 'giving someone the finger'. Unfortunatelly for Von Zipper, the only person he seems to be able to give the finger is himself. The gag isn't used in Muscle Beach Party because Von Zipper and his gang do not appear in the film.

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Movies - Beach Party

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