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Writer:
Lou Rusoff (writer)
Release Date:
7 August 1963 (USA)
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Tagline:
When 10,000 kids meet on 5,000 Beach Blankets ... something's bound to happen! more
Plot:
The first of the five official American-International "Beach Party" movies. Anthropology Professor Robert...
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Beach
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Motorcycle
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Surfing
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Beach Party
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Teenager
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Awards:
1 win
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NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Actor McCrea Dies
(From WENN. 20 April 2009, 9:23 AM, PDT)
Obit: Jody McCrea, 'Beach Party' Star
(From The Wrap. 19 April 2009, 10:50 PM, PDT)
(From WENN. 20 April 2009, 9:23 AM, PDT)
Obit: Jody McCrea, 'Beach Party' Star
(From The Wrap. 19 April 2009, 10:50 PM, PDT)
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Let's Go Surfing Now, Let's Go Spying Now
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 |
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101 min | Germany:94 min (TV)
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Color (Pathécolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Although "old fogey" Professor Sutwell knew nothing about beach life, actor Robert Cummings was a competent surfer himself, as documented in personal home movies shot in Hawaii by Hollywood's television host and author Ken Murray.
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Continuity: Early in the film, when Frankie and Delores drive onto the beach towards their beach house for the first time, there's already a set of tire tracks in the sand from a previous take.
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Quotes:
Cappy:
Just one thing, Professor, will you level with me? What's with the feather duster? The beard? You think it moves the chicks?
Prof. Robert O. Sutwell: No, it usually works the other way.
Cappy: I don't dig. You don't want to level with me?
Prof. Robert O. Sutwell: All right I'll level with you. When I first started out a Harvard, I was the youngest professor at the university. I was so young that it was sickening. No one took me seriously. Every time when I opened my mouth to speak, my students laughed, the other professors laughed...
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Prof. Robert O. Sutwell: No, it usually works the other way.
Cappy: I don't dig. You don't want to level with me?
Prof. Robert O. Sutwell: All right I'll level with you. When I first started out a Harvard, I was the youngest professor at the university. I was so young that it was sickening. No one took me seriously. Every time when I opened my mouth to speak, my students laughed, the other professors laughed...
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Indie Sex: Teens (2007) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Treat Him Nicely
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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 for a scientist. Cummings must have liked the look as a scientist because he uses it here in portraying an anthropologist studying teenage mating habits.
Where better than Malibu and who better for study than Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and their friends?
The same innocence of the years before November of 1963 is there, this film's not quite as surreal as the later successors. It's like The Road to Singapore which established the formula for those Crosby/Hope films, but hadn't descended yet into the zaniness that characterized the later ones.
It all works out quite nicely and it was nice Dorothy Malone was around for Bob Cummings although the poor woman had very little to do in this film. My favorite in these film is Harvey Lembeck as Erich Von Zipper, the motorcycle gang leader. He's a Marlon Brando wannabe.
Beach Party does kind of take me back to my teen years.