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Frankie & Annette MGM Movie Legends Collection (Beach Blanket Bingo / How to Stuff a Wild Bikini / Beach Party / Bikini Beach / Fireball 500 / Thunder Alley / Muscle Beach Party / Ski Party) starring: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello


 : Frankie & Annette MGM Movie Legends Collection (Beach Blanket Bingo / How to Stuff a Wild Bikini / Beach Party / Bikini Beach / Fireball 500 / Thunder Alley / Muscle Beach Party / Ski Party)

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616081292
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: American International Pictures (AIP)
Manufacturer: American International Pictures (AIP)
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: American International Pictures (AIP)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Running Time: 755 minutes
Studio: American International Pictures (AIP)
Theatrical Release Date: July 22, 1964
Sales Rank: 7366
MPN: MGMDM108129D




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Description:
Disc 1 Side A: Beach Blanket Bingo Disc 1 Side B: How To Stuff a Wild Bikini

Disc 2 Side A: Beach Party Disc 2 Side B: Bikini Beach

Disc 3 Side A: Fireball 500 Disc 3 Side B: Thunder Alley

Disc 4 Side A: Muscle Beach Party Disc 4 Side B: Ski Party

Amazon.com:
The sun will never set on Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, The recording star from Philadelphia and the former Mouseketeer give a master class in chemistry in five Beach Party films that make up the bulk of this swinging eight-film box set. Beach Party (1963) helped to usher in a new wave of teen exploitation films that were far more fun and frolicsome than the rock and roll and juvenile delinquent films that preceded it. Frankie rents a beach house for himself and Annette's Dolores. He is stunned to learn that she has gotten cold feet and allowed the whole gang to hang out there. So Frankie decides to "dig somebody else," and Delores takes up with Robert Cummings, an anthropologist studying the sex lives of teens. All ends happily, and chastely. Harvey Lembeck, whose credits include Billy Wilder's Stalag 17, introduced his recurring series role as bumbling biker Eric Von Zipper. Surf guitar god Dick Dale provides accompaniment. Vincent Price pops up as Big Daddy to say, "Bring me my pendulum, kiddies. I feel like swinging." Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) is the magnum Party opus as Frankie goes sky-diving, Bonehead (Jody McCrea) falls in love with a mermaid, Linda Evans sings, Paul Lynde is snide, Don Rickles insults, and Frankie and Annette sing their classic, "I Think, You Think." Bikini Beach (1964) takes a swipe at the upstart Beatles with Frankie in a dual role as British pop star Potato Bug. Muscle Beach Party (1964) was Stevie Wonder's first film, and Peter Lorre's last.

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) marks the end of an era, with Frankie, off in the Naval Reserves, getting help from witch doctor Buster Keaton in keeping interloper Dwayne Hickman away from Annette. Annette's absence is keenly felt in Ski Party, but James Brown performs, "I Feel Good" and Lesley Gore sings her top-40 hit, "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows." Frankie and Annette were reunited at the racetrack in Fireball 500 (1966), but Fabian is a third wheel as a rival for Annette. Thunder Alley (1967) (from Richard Rush, director of the cult classic, The Stunt Man), is another car-racing vehicle that pairs Annette and Fabian, but by now the thrill is gone. Frankie and Annette are as indelible a screen couple and as inseparable in the public's imagination as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers or Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. What is the secret to their enduring appeal? The last line of Back to the Beach (1987), an unsung gem unfortunately not included in this set, sums it up. Frankie and Annette walk together along the beach for the last time. Frankie turns to the camera and asks, "Are we the corniest couple in the world, or what?" --Donald Liebenson



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - I love bikini"s!
I Love these movies! They are silly, filled with young pretty girls in bikini's, a weak story line and God I'm old! They make me smile and full of clean fun.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Frankie and Annette
This product was great. There were four dvds with two movies on each dvd. Each movie was excellent. They all played great with no flaws in any of them. Thank you for the great movies.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - nostalgic fun
go back in time and enjoy life at the beach as it never was. these movies are just fun.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Love the beach movies!
I love all of the beach movies! They are basically dumb entertainment but really fun, dumb entertainment! I also enjoyed the Ski Party movie. I really didn't enjoy Fireball 500 and Thunder Alley. They took the innocence away from Frankie and Annette and made them hardened sinning characters. I prefer more of an innocent act like with the beach movies. Pretty good pack of movies but no special features. I would be just fine if the pack left out the two car movies.



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - These films are not as much fun as I remember them
This box set contains eight movies produced by American International Pictures (AIP) from 1963-67, five of them "Beach Party" movies--four of them starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello (BEACH PARTY, MUSCLE BEACH PARTY, BIKINI BEACH, BEACH BLANKET BINGO) and one starring Annette, with Frankie in an extended cameo (HOW TO STUFF A WILD BIKINI). There's a Beach Party offshoot in SKI PARTY, starring Frankie, but with Annette in a cameo, and two southern-set stock car racing dramas, one starring ... Read More

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