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Bikini Beach
Bikini Beach is a 1964 American teen film directed by William Asher and starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. The film belongs to the beach party genre of movies, popular in the 1960s. This is the third in the series of seven films produced by American International Pictures (AIP).
Plot.
School is out and the teenagers head for the beach. All is well until millionaire Harvey Huntington Honeywagon III (Wynn) comes around, convinced that the beachgoers are so senselessly obsessed with sex that their
of "Girl in the Glass Bikini" can be seen in the promo in the end credits for "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine", an AIP spy spoof loosely affiliated with the Beach Party series (with "beach" alumni Avalon, Walley, Dwayne Hickman, and Susan Hart).
By June 1965, Don Weis was announced as director. He had made "Pajama Party" for AIP, and did it under a two-picture deal with the studio. Louis M. Heyward, who had also worked