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Beach Party (1963)

Movie"Surfs up and the Beach is really swinging!"
Audience Score
60
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NR 1 hr 41 minAug 7th, 1963Comedy, MusicBeach Party Collection PosterPart of Beach Party Collection
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
StarringRobert CummingsDorothy MaloneFrankie Avalon
DirectorWilliam Asher
WriterLou Rusoff

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:August 7th, 1963
On DVD & Blu-ray:September 5th, 2000 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$300,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$2,300,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Samuel Z. Arkoff
Production Companies:Alta Vista Productions, American International Pictures
Movie Tags:
musicalbeachsurferanthropologistmadcap comedy

Beach Party Collection

American International Pictures produced a series of seven beach films, starting with Beach Party. The 1965 AIP film Ski Party (with Dwayne Hickman, Yvonne Craig, Lesley Gore and James Brown) is also notable for employing many of the same actors and schticks, only transplanted to a ski resort in the Sawtooth National Forest.