Bikini Beach

1964
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1h 39m

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

1.8K

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Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in Bikini Beach (1964)

A 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.

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A millionaire newspaper publisher is fed up by the scantily clad teenagers who hang out on the local beach. Meanwhile, the teens go against an uppity young Englishman who challenges them to ... Read allA millionaire newspaper publisher is fed up by the scantily clad teenagers who hang out on the local beach. Meanwhile, the teens go against an uppity young Englishman who challenges them to a drag race.A millionaire newspaper publisher is fed up by the scantily clad teenagers who hang out on the local beach. Meanwhile, the teens go against an uppity young Englishman who challenges them to a drag race.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

1.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The 4 engine dragster was owned by Tommy Ivo. The car was named the Showboat. It was powered by four 401-cubic-inch Hilborn-injected Nailhead Buick engines. The dragster weighed 3555 lbs. The four engines combined to make about 1700 horsepower. Revell made a 1/25 model of the car.

Goofs
Shadow of boom mic can be seen on Potato Bug's tent as Dee Dee is talking with him.

Quotes
Harvey Huntington Honeywagon III: Sir, I consider you a member of the lower classes.
Eric Von Zipper: Hey, that's right. How'd you know that I dropped out of school at the third grade?

Crazy credits
The final credit, "An American International Release", is written on a bikini bottom.

Connections
Featured in A Century of Cinema (1994)

Soundtracks
Bikini Beach
by Guy Hemric and Jerry Styner
Performed by the cast (uncredited)

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Featured review

7/10

One of the best beach party movies

One of the funniest beach party movies made by AIP (or anybody), with a great cast and pretty funny script with no story involved. Such as it is involves the arrival of the Potato Bug (Avalon in a double role), a John Lennon-esque Britisher that all the beach girls swoon over. Annette seems to decide the endless summer might never end, and jumps ship to the Bug. Frankie and the Bug have to drag race it out at Don Ricle's aptly named "Big Drag" -- Rickles is anything but a drag, constantly mugging with the lines they throw him and everyone else's too. Frankie Avalon's double performance may not go down in history as the modern equivalent of John Barrymore, but it's all good fun worth a hundred minutes of my lifetime. Looks like Mike Myers might have been watching this one pretty closely too.