Muscle Beach Party (DVD). Concerned about her plans for a wild spring break weekend in Florida, her aunts use their magical powers to ship Sabrina and her friends into the alternative reality of a tame 1960s seashore film. 1963’s Palm Springs Weekend and 1965’s Girl Happy. Palm Springs Weekend was the studio’s only venture into the style. American International Pictures produced a sequence of twelve films that fall into the style. The “Beach Blanket Bizarro” episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch from 2001 also paid homage to the collection with Frankie Avalon showing as himself. MGM additionally bought the film rights to Ira Wallach’s Muscle Beach (1959), a satirical novel on Southern-California surf culture. Occasionally the term “surf movie” refers to a simple dramatic film that uses surfing as a backdrop or plot machine, such as Big Wednesday or Blue Crush. The Astronauts have the distinction of appearing in a total of four films within the genre – greater than every other surf band. AIP followed up with Muscle Beach Party barely seven months later in March 1964, and Bikini Beach, launched solely four months after that, was the very best-grossing film in their history – in addition to the highest-grossing movie of the genre.
Mavis, Paul (August 21, 2007). “Frankie & Annette MGM Movie Legends Collection”. In August 1965, the studio launched a Maury Dexter-directed Lippert production, Wild on the Beach, (featuring then-unknown Sonny & Cher). Trans American’s It is a Bikini World and Crown International’s Catalina Caper seem to have been filmed in 1965, however neither hit movie screens till 1967, with It is a Bikini World popping out in April and Catalina Caper premiering in December. General manager of American International Records, Al Simms, also commissioned the recording of 4 songs by his daughter Lu Ann Simms, released on soundtracks and singles for Beach Party and How you can Stuff a Wild Bikini. Mars, Mikey. “The Music of the Beach Party Movies”. By the time it was lastly filmed – and launched in 1967 under the brand new title Don’t Make Waves – it was not so much a seaside social gathering movie as a bedroom farce with Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, and Sharon Tate as a ditzy seashore woman. Shimmy sensation Candy Johnson appeared in the first 4 films (showing together with her band, The Exciters, in the third film, Bikini Beach). The deal came with one caveat, that Funicello not seem in a bikini (reportedly, Disney himself needed to be settled down by Arkoff when he discovered that his subordinates had allowed Funicello to look in the AIP film at all).
Comedic talent Fred Clark appeared in each Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and Sergeant Deadhead. She outlasts the machine and makes it go haywire. Lewis’ Blast-Off Girls and 6 Shes and a He, released the obscure Daytona Beach Weekend, featuring Del Shannon, in April 1965. Originally filmed in 16mm at Daytona Beach throughout Easter weekend, as we speak the film is uncommon, with no revival screenings or home video releases. 1968. Starring Martin Milner, the film acquired a 1968 Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song for the Jerry Styner/Guy Hemric composition, “Please Don’t Gamble with Love” – the only movie within the style to be nominated for a Golden Globe. Generally comedies, the core elements of the AIP movies encompass a group of teenage and/or college-age characters as protagonists; non-parental adult characters as antagonists and/or comic relief; easy, foolish storylines that keep away from any sober social consciousness; teen traits and interests (such as dancing, browsing, drag racing, custom cars, music, irresponsible drinking, and so on.); easy romantic arcs; unique songs (introduced in each the musical genre style and as “supply music”); teen-oriented musical acts (continuously performing as themselves); and a tongue-in-cheek angle toward the audience.