Collection
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.
Timeline
- 1
Beach Party8/7/19631h 41m 6.0Anthropology 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.
- 2
Muscle Beach Party3/25/19641h 34m 5.7Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
- 3
Bikini Beach7/22/19641h 39m 5.6A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.
- 4
Pajama Party11/11/19641h 27m 4.8A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
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Beach Blanket Bingo4/14/19651h 38m 5.9In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
- 6
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini7/14/19651h 33m 5.3When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
- 7
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini4/6/19661h 22m 5.1A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
