Beach Ball

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Beach Ball (1965, USA) is a Beach Party film directed by Lennie Weinrib.

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Main Details

  • Released in 1965
  • Color
  • Running time: 83 mins
  • Distribution Co: Paramount Pictures
  • Directed by Lennie Weinrib
  • Produced by Bart Patton, Gene Corman
  • Written by David Malcolm
  • Starring Edd Byrnes
  • Cinematography by Floyd Crosby
  • Edited by Karl Ward

Plot Summary

  • Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group, the Wigglers. College-finance-committee members Chris Noel, Gail Gilmore, Mikki Jameson and Brenda Benet uncover the scam and tear up the check, but the Wigglers play a Long Beach, California custom-car show in drag and win first prize. The Supremes do "Come to the Beach Ball with Me" and "Surfer Boy;" the Four Seasons sing their 1964 hit "Dawn;" the Hondells sing Brian Wilson's "My Buddy Seat;" the Righteous Brothers do "Baby What You Want Me to Do;" and the Walker Brothers cut loose with "Doin' the Jerk.

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