Two guys and a girl run a week-long concert festival in the sunny summertime of Arrowhead, California and deal with bullies and breakups.Two guys and a girl run a week-long concert festival in the sunny summertime of Arrowhead, California and deal with bullies and breakups.Two guys and a girl run a week-long concert festival in the sunny summertime of Arrowhead, California and deal with bullies and breakups.
William Wellman Jr.
- Rick
- (as William A. Wellman Jr.)
Mary Mitchel
- Shirley
- (as Mary Mitchell)
Allan Jones
- Mr. Johnson
- (as Alan Jones)
Buck Holland
- Lou
- (as Bucky Holland)
Glenn Stensel
- Les
- (as Glen Stensil)
Michael Blodgett
- Beach Boy Dancer
- (as Mike Blodgett)
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Did you know
- TriviaLinda Evans was signed to play the female lead but bowed out after she was cast in The Big Valley (1965).
- GoofsThe mob of dancing teens marching down to the boat dock just prior to the big boat chase are seen carrying a number of Tiki torches, almost as if they are marching on Doctor Frankenstein's castle. However, the scenes surrounding the boat chase were all filmed in full daylight.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The South Bank Show: Velvet Underground (1986)
- SoundtracksA Swingin' Summer
Sung by Jody Miller
Written by Buzz Cason (as James Cason), Carol Connors, Roger Christian
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Those user votes gotta be kiddin'! It was a few years back on an idle summer Saturday night that I caught this film on the USA Network cable channel. More happens in the tag line -- "Spread Out the Beach Towels...Grab Your Gals...it's gonna be A SWINGIN' SUMMER!" -- than in the entire film! The most strenuous thing the characters do is lay out those beach towels, and then its just unimaginative bickering along with coupling and uncoupling and recoupling serving as the plot. The only thing worse than the dialogue are the gawky jerky movements exhibited by the actors during the various musical numbers -- that's dancing?!? Anyway, yeah, the Righteous Brothers drop in, but by far the kickiest part of the movie is when Raquel Welch jumps on stage shakin', twistin', turnin' -- it's practically a revelation! In any case, it's more than this dreadful film deserves.
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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