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In 1964, American International Pictures released Bikini Beach, the third of its Beach Party movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. It is co-written and directed by William Asher. How is this for blatant advertising: ‘It’s where the […]
Sixties heartthrobs Fabian Forte, Tab Hunter and Peter Brown ride the Hawaiian surf and romance lovelies Shelley Fabares, Barbara Eden and Susan Hart, in director Don Taylor’s frothy and flaky 1964 Ride the Wild Surf, […]
It’s all here – the Sixties, slapstick, songs, satire, sand, sun, sea, surf, and of course sex! What more can you ask for? Oh, subtlety and sophistication, I suppose. Director William Asher’s 1963 American International […]
Can surfer babe Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) ride the wave and win a big Hawaii contest? Will she fall for neat football player Matt Tollman (Matthew Davis)? Director John Stockwell’s slick 2003 surfin’ soap is a […]
Sandra Dee stars in director Paul Wendkos’s wholesome-as-apple-pie 1959 teen comedy film Gidget, as young Francie Lawrence aka the Gidget, who is initiated into the California surf culture during one formative summer. As a result, […]
Heath Ledger seems to doing a bad Val Kilmer impression as youth guru-like Skip Engblom, co-proprietor of the Zephyr beach sports shop in Venice, California, during the 1970s, in writer Stacy Peralta’s dramatisation of his […]
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