Beach Blanket Bingo

Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and the gang are hitting the beach for some good old-fashioned shenanigans. To get the party underway, the manager (Paul Lynde) of pop singer Sugar Kane (Linda Evans) decides a skydiving publicity stunt will really do the trick. As Frankie and the others are pulled into the plan, things get out of control. Throw in Bonehead (Jody McCrea) falling in love with a mermaid (Marta Kristen) and a kidnapping biker (Harvey Lembeck), and the party’s just getting started.

BEACH BLANKET BINGO, released in 1965, was part of a new American film genre, the ‘Beach Party Film,’ which were produced and released between 1963 and 1968 and created by American International Pictures.

Generally comedies, the core elements of the AIP films consist of a group of teenage and/or college-age characters as protagonists; non-parental adult characters as antagonists and/or comic relief; simple, silly storylines, teen trends and interests, simple romantic arcs; original songs, and teen-oriented musical acts (frequently performing as themselves). –wikipedia

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