HOW TO STUFF A WILD BIKINI (1965) ¢ ¢
D: William Asher
Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Mickey Rooney,
Buster Keaton, Brian Donlevy, Harvey Lembeck,
Beverly Adams, Jody McRae, Len Lesser,
Ilene Tsu, Marianne Gaba, Frankie Avalon
Frankie's off in the South Pacific with the Naval Reserve, but the rest of the gang is still hanging out at the beach. The plot? It don't matter. Buster Keaton, Mickey Rooney and Brian Donlevy are in it, and there's some back projection that looks terrible (but who cares?), and Dobie Gillis fills in for Frankie, because Annette has to not hook up with somebody (and she's still the only girl in Malibu not wearing a bikini). An undemanding time filler, from a more innocent time maybe, innocuous, even by "Beach Party" standards. The Kingsmen show up long enough to play a tune, but it's not "Louie Louie".
