Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Musical
Release Year: 1965
Country: USA
Runtime: 93
Rating: 8.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: William Asher
Sound: Mono
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Writing by: William Asher – writer
Leo Townsend – writer
Produced by: Samuel Z. Arkoff – producer
Anthony Carras – co-producer
James H. Nicholson – producer
Cast: Annette Funicello – Dee Dee (formerly Dolores)
Dwayne Hickman – Ricky
Brian Donlevy – B.D. MacPherson aka Big Deal
Harvey Lembeck – Eric Von Zipper
Beverly Adams – Cassandra
John Ashley – Johnny
Jody McCrea – Bonehead
Marianne Gaba – Animal
Len Lesser – North Dakota Pete
Irene Tsu – Native Girl
Arthur Julian – Dr. Melamed
Music: Les Baxter
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Plot Outline: The last of the Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello beach movies. Frankie, on naval-reserve duty in Tahiti…
Plot: The last of the Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello beach movies. Frankie, on naval-reserve duty in Tahiti, doesnt trust Dee Dee to stay faithful, so he hires Bwana (Buster Keaton), a witch doctor, to help. Bwana conjures up a floating bikini, “stuffs” it with Cassandra (Beverly Adams), and sends her to distract advertising executive Ricky (Dwayne Hickman) from Dee Dee. Watch for Elizabeth “Samantha” Montgomery as Bwanas witch-daughter to pop up and twitch.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Claymation opening credit sequence devised by Gumby-creator Art Clokey.
Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: At the start of the road race, the starter has a green flag. When we cut away to the stock footage, the starter has a red flag.
Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list – like these:
- Features the only big screen appearance by The Kingsmen, famous for their hit version of “Louie Louie”. Decked out in matching yellow blazers, the band did not perform that song and instead performed “Give Her Lovin”.
- Annette Funicello was pregnant during filming and was mostly shot from the waist up.
- Elizabeth Montgomerys last theatrical movie.
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