Comments on: Beach Party Movies

By: This Week on TCM: It’s Spring Break! » DVDs Worth Watching

This Week on TCM: It’s Spring Break! » DVDs Worth Watching — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:00:40 +0000

[...] brings the classic beach party lineup, with the AIP Beach Party (1963), Muscle Beach Party (1964), Bikini Beach (1964), Beach Blanket [...]

By: Tall Story: Jane Fonda’s Debut » DVDs Worth Watching

Tall Story: Jane Fonda’s Debut » DVDs Worth Watching — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:23:38 +0000

[...] Are, also featuring 60s college girls, or for a more seasonal twist, pair it up with one of the beach party movies for an example of what the students did in the fall. You can see some images from the film online. [...]

By: Team Unicorn Parodies 60s Summer Flicks With Alien Beach Crashers » DVDs Worth Watching

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:32:23 +0000

[...] bloodier than the beach party movies I remember, but it’s got a certain wacky charm — and some nifty tunes. The geek-girl [...]

By: Hold On! A Herman’s Hermits Movie » DVDs Worth Watching

Hold On! A Herman’s Hermits Movie » DVDs Worth Watching — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:45:53 +0000

[...] sounds like a train wreck of a movie, if you’re a fan of teen movies of the era (especially the Beach Party films, which this somewhat resembles), you need to see it. The music and performances are quite fun (and [...]

By: Archie Digests for October 2008 » Comics Worth Reading

Archie Digests for October 2008 » Comics Worth Reading — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:55:29 +0000

[...] did get a hoot out of Jughead finishing an earlier story with the line, “In the words of Eric von Zipper, why me? why me alla [...]

By: Good Superhero Comics: Week of March 5 » Comics Worth Reading

Good Superhero Comics: Week of March 5 » Comics Worth Reading — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:09:16 +0000

[...] Robin story has art by David Bullock and Michael Cho and a version of the character who sounds like Eric Von Zipper, all faux tough guy slang. J. Bone draws the Wonder Woman/Black Canary teamup, a Playboy club [...]

By: This Week on TCM » Comics Worth Reading

This Week on TCM » Comics Worth Reading — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:42:03 +0000

[...] Party (Sunday, 1/27, 2:30 PM ET, 1964) — With Ski Party, the rarest of the beach party movies. One could even quibble whether it was properly part of that series, but it’s got the same [...]

By: This Week on TCM » Comics Worth Reading

This Week on TCM » Comics Worth Reading — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:16:11 +0000

[...] Day is Thursday, August 30. It starts with his mid-60s work, basically cameos, including in some beach movies. Then come the late 20s, not-very-good films. So wait until 8 PM, when the classics start. The Art [...]

By: This Week on TCM » Comics Worth Reading

This Week on TCM » Comics Worth Reading — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:45:55 +0000

[...] Muscle Beach Party (Sunday, 7/15, 4 PM ET) — What a great choice for a summer Sunday, especially followed up by Elvis Presley’s Clambake. The beach was never like this — pretty people and pop songs — but it should have been. [...]

By: My Fourth of July: Head » Comics Worth Reading

My Fourth of July: Head » Comics Worth Reading — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:40:04 +0000

[...] advising Davy to work more on his music? We’ve also coined a new rule, based on this film and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini: the best 60s movies have both Toni Basil and Teri Garr in [...]

By: James Schee

James Schee — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:55:38 +0000

Oh yeah, I love these movies. My mom HATED movies when I was growing up, she was always a busy person so never had the time to sit and watch an entire movie. (she preferred sitcoms or gameshows, 30 minutes tops) Yet she sat and watched these with us while we were growing up.

Didn’t one of them have a VERY young Stevie Wonder as a singer in it?

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:30:43 +0000

I’ve still got Wild Bikini to watch, and I don’t have Invisible Bikini, although I think I’ve seen it. I don’t remember much about it, though. I think I need to hunt down Back to the Beach… all I remember from that one is Pee-Wee Herman.

By: Craig Boldman

Craig Boldman — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:42:39 +0000

I’m crazy about those beach movies. “Beach Blanket Bingo’s” my favorite of the bunch. Could never figure out why Jody McCrea’s character kept changing names from movie to movie — sometimes called Goo Goo, sometimes Bonehead, and sometimes Deadhead. And then Frankie appropriated his name for the 1965 AIP Army comedy, “Sgt. Deadhead.”
Eric Von Zipper also makes a cameo in one of the Vincent Price “Dr. Goldfoot” movies.
I found it cute that Elizabeth Montgomery plays a witch, complete with nose twitch, in “How To Stuff A Wild Bikini.” Montgomery’s husband, William Asher, directed the beach movies as well as the Bewitched TV series. Gumby’s Art Clokey did the animated titles for “How To Stuff a Wild Bikini,” incidentally.
I thought “Back To The Beach” did a nice job of revisiting the concept.

By: The Last Visible Blog » Blog Archive » Annette Funicello knows the score

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:44:39 +0000

[...] Beach Movies are fabulous and brilliant. What made me finally come out and say that on this blog is this lovely entry from Johanna at Comics Worth Reading extolling their [...]

By: John

John — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:29:06 +0000

Beach Blanket Bingo has the GREAT closing credits with Buster Keaton and some bikini girls, right? My favorite is the one for Muscle Beach Party, which has a bongo-beating Little Stevie Wonder performing with Candy Johnson dancing around him. Now that one is so cool!

Have you ever seen The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini? It was the very last of these films – it’s totally weird, like three movies combined into one. Eric Von Zipper is in it, though!

By: Tim O'Neil

Tim O'Neil — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:25:56 +0000

You, Madam, are a masochist.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:17:29 +0000

Rob: Bwa ha ha! George is the Martian, by the way. John: Great points! I'm watching Beach Blanket Bingo now, and that's the one where the manufactured singer (Sugar Kane, played by a very young Linda Evans, and managed by a slimy Paul Lynde) gets the worse of it. In between the skydiving and partner-swapping. Musically, I recommend Summer Beach Party as a great sampler CD containing tracks from all the films. Except the BBB theme, for some reason. Oh, and "Stuffed Animal", which is on The Best of Annette.

By: John

John — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:55:56 +0000

Yeah, my wife and I love these movies too. What surprised us, though, were how fun they were despite the obvious negatives one could say about them and, also, how subversive they were, as well. For instance, there is a subtext through several of them that pretty much accuses rock and roll of the time of being an adult swindle that crass businessment are trying to rook the teens with and bluntly state that the teens will make up their own minds. I always thought that attitude was pretty ginchy.

These movies also turned me onto Annette’s fun music – there’s an excellent box set in existence. She’s not the greatest singer, lord knows, but she rocks pretty well – and her ska song with Fishbone in the “Back to the Beach” movie is totally excellent.

Plus, they’re just so bizarre, they come from their own place. They are not derivative of anything . . .

Good call!

By: Rob S.

Rob S. — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:49:48 +0000

Oh, that is one creepy lion.

“Just as I suspected. Connie… you’re in love with George!”

All I could think was: Of the Jungle?