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Article: THE BEACH PARTY'S A BIT OF A DRAG
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 8, 1987
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BACK TO THE BEACH -- Directed by Lyndall Hobbs, screenplay
by Peter Krikes, Steve Meerson and Christopher Thompson,
story by James Komack, based on characters by Lou Rusoff.
Starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Lori Laughlin,
Tommy Hinkley, Connie Stevens, Don Adams, Bob Denver, Pee
-Wee Herman. At the Beacon Hill and suburbs, rated PG.
With "Back to the Beach" there can't be any noise about a classic
being violated. Those old American International beach movies of
the '60s -- "Beach Party," "Bikini Beach," "How to Stuff a Wild
Bikini" -- were atrocious, but improbably disarming. They weren't
movies at all, in the usual sense of the word. They ...