With Pamela Tiffin two years before Harper, Bob Denver and Tina Louise the same year Gilligan's Island premiered. They waste Paul Lynde a year or two before he became TV's Uncle Arthur .
A big budget comedy, not really funny, about wealthy college students who will go to any lengths to keep their favorite bar open, but that only happens in the last few minutes, so I'm giving away the ending.
Youth culture doesn't quite exist in this thing. It's not as bad as Otto Preminger's Skidoo, about hippies where the main characters are all over fifty, but the college kids hang around in a club also favored by the middle aged and elderly. Perhaps this is as it should be. They stick to their own age group on the beach. Cast is all-white except for Sammee Tong.
The girls are all in a sorority. Tina Louise as sort of a stripper who remains fully clothed.
They spike sociology professor Ellen Burstyn's drink. In a drunken state, she reveals that she's gathering information to shut down the club.
Denver sits in a lotus position and introduces Nancy Sinatra to meditation. He does that upside down chinface thing and performs a couple of spoken word songs. He has nice teeth. Later, he plays the bongos in a trio on the beach.
Sorry. The plot is kind of choppy.
George Raft appears briefly.
Free with Amazon Prime.
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