BIKINI BEACH TRAILER 1964 ANNETTE FUNNICELLO

Theatrical trailer for the third of the popular "beach party" films of the early 1960s, BIKINI BEACH (1964), starring Frankie Avalaon and Annette Funicello. Between August, 1963 and April, 1965, independent studio American-International, released four of these profitable films BEACH PARTY, MUSCLE BEACH PARTY, BIKINI BEACH and BEACH BLANKET BINGO. Following the surfing craze of the 1960s, and incorporating such then-current fads as body building, go-karting, drag racing and sky diving, these inexpensive films starred two unlikely "surfers", former teen ideol Frankie Avalon and ex-Mouseketeer, Annette Funicello. Inane, paper thin plots with broad comedy strokes -- peppered with music from not only the two stars but such artists as surf guitar legend Dick Dale, Little Steve Wonder, The Pyramids and The Hondells -- and casts featuring such veteran performers as Bob Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Peter Lorre, Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, Keenan Wynn, Buster Keaton and Paul Lynde -- made the trips to this never-neverland beaches (often filmed at Paradise Cove, California) of this popular films an enjoyable hour and a half for millions of moviegoers. Additional entries in the series were made with cast and local changes -- SKI PARTY, PAJAMA PARTY and HOW TO STUFF A WILD BIKINI, but none captured the magic or were as popular as the four films starring Avalon and Funicello.

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