Number of Movies: 7
Overview
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.
Professor Sutwell
Marianne
Frankie
Dolores
Cappy
Eric Von Zipper
Ava
Ken
Deadhead
Himself
J.D.
The Ratz
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April 6, 1966
A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
July 14, 1965
When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
April 14, 1965
In 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.
November 11, 1964
A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
July 22, 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.
March 25, 1964
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
August 7, 1963
Anthropology 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.
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