Annette Funicello Collection - Beach Blanket Bingo/Bikini Beach/Beach Party DVD

This box set features the following films: Beach Party (Dir. William Asher) (1963): Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell (Bob Cummings) and his secretary Marianne (Dorothy Malone) are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee (Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello) don't have much sex but they sing battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones. Look for Vincent Price in a surprise cameo. Bikini Beach (Dir. William Asher) (1964): Millionaire Harvey... Huntington Honeywagon III (Keenan Wynn) tries to prove to his colleague Vivian Clements (Martha Hyer) that his chimp Clyde is more intelligent than American teenagers. Meanwhile Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) is torn between Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and British recording star the Potato Bug (Avalon). Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) shows up to aid Harvey's anti-teen campaign. Don Rickles plays Big Drag and Boris Karloff shows up in a gag bit part. Beach Blanket Bingo (Dir. William Asher) (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. [show more]

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