9.9.09

beach blanket bingo (1965)

There's trouble in teen paradise when Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) clash over his friendship with singer Sugar Kane (Linda Evans). Meanwhile while the rest of the gang are off learning to skydive, Bonehead (Jody McCrea) meets a mermaid and becomes infatuated, with everyone thinking he's finally lost it. Frankie comes up with a plan to snap him out of it by teaming him up with Sugar, but then Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) and his Rat Pack kidnap Sugar.
The fourth beach party in the series sees the gang having the most fun with their parts and their most demanding of plots. Some nice comic turns by Paul Lynde as Sugar's manipulating manager and Don Rickles gets to insult the oldest teenagers on the beach! The songs are nothing outstanding with various characters getting to sing this time. No groups get to appear, other than the Hondells.

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