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It's a Bikini World
It's a Bikini World is a 1967 American musical comedy film starring Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley and Bobby Pickett. The film features cameos by the music groups the Gentrys, the Animals, Pat & Lolly Vegas, the Castaways and R&B girl group the Toys. Featuring a pro-feminist plotline, it is the only film in the beach party genre to be directed by a woman (Stephanie Rothman).
This film, along with Catalina Caper (which also starred Tommy Kirk), is among the last of the beach party films. The mainstay of the once-popular genre was the series of films by American International Pictures (AIP), starting with the surprise hit Beach Party in 1963 and ending with The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini in 1966.
Although AIP picked up distribution, It's a Bikini World was not an AIP film. It was produced and originally distributed by Trans American Films under the title The Girl in Daddy's Bikini. A new 35-mm print with this title was screened at the American Cinematheque in Hollywood on August 1, 2009.
Young surfer, local beach jock and ladies' man Mike Samson meets Delilah Dawes. At first, he tries to add her to his collection of women, but she rejects him because she finds him chauvinistic and shallow, so he disguises himself as a nerdy twin brother named Herbert.
Publisher Harvey Pulp plans to start a new magazine called Teen Scream. To publicize the venture, he joins forces with Daddy, a car, surfboard and skateboard customizer and owner of local music club The Dungeon. Pulp and Daddy organize a series of contests, and Delilah competes against Mike with the encouragement of Mike's fake brother and alternate identity Herbert in various events, and loses each time. However, Mike finds that he is falling in love with her. Delilah finds out about the deception. The two compete in a final race using various vehicles.
It's a Bikini World was partly financed by Roger Corman, who disliked musicals on the whole but invested in some beach movies such as this and Beach Ball. He hired his protégé Stephanie Rothman to direct and Rothman's husband Charles S. Swartz to produce, and Rothman and Swartz co-wrote the script. Rothman said "This was one of the last beach pictures made, possibly the last. I doubt that anyone ever chose to make a beach picture because they were attracted to the genre. I certainly didn't. It was simply my first chance to make a feature film."
Rothman later stated her rationale for the script:
Girls in beach pictures were usually very passive. The idea that she would assume her athletic prowess could be as good as his was very alien. We wanted a story in which the two characters each had a very strong sense of self-esteem: the boy not wanting to admit that the girl could be as worthy as he, the girl not willing to let him believe that he was better than her.
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It's a Bikini World
It's a Bikini World is a 1967 American musical comedy film starring Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley and Bobby Pickett. The film features cameos by the music groups the Gentrys, the Animals, Pat & Lolly Vegas, the Castaways and R&B girl group the Toys. Featuring a pro-feminist plotline, it is the only film in the beach party genre to be directed by a woman (Stephanie Rothman).
This film, along with Catalina Caper (which also starred Tommy Kirk), is among the last of the beach party films. The mainstay of the once-popular genre was the series of films by American International Pictures (AIP), starting with the surprise hit Beach Party in 1963 and ending with The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini in 1966.
Although AIP picked up distribution, It's a Bikini World was not an AIP film. It was produced and originally distributed by Trans American Films under the title The Girl in Daddy's Bikini. A new 35-mm print with this title was screened at the American Cinematheque in Hollywood on August 1, 2009.
Young surfer, local beach jock and ladies' man Mike Samson meets Delilah Dawes. At first, he tries to add her to his collection of women, but she rejects him because she finds him chauvinistic and shallow, so he disguises himself as a nerdy twin brother named Herbert.
Publisher Harvey Pulp plans to start a new magazine called Teen Scream. To publicize the venture, he joins forces with Daddy, a car, surfboard and skateboard customizer and owner of local music club The Dungeon. Pulp and Daddy organize a series of contests, and Delilah competes against Mike with the encouragement of Mike's fake brother and alternate identity Herbert in various events, and loses each time. However, Mike finds that he is falling in love with her. Delilah finds out about the deception. The two compete in a final race using various vehicles.
It's a Bikini World was partly financed by Roger Corman, who disliked musicals on the whole but invested in some beach movies such as this and Beach Ball. He hired his protégé Stephanie Rothman to direct and Rothman's husband Charles S. Swartz to produce, and Rothman and Swartz co-wrote the script. Rothman said "This was one of the last beach pictures made, possibly the last. I doubt that anyone ever chose to make a beach picture because they were attracted to the genre. I certainly didn't. It was simply my first chance to make a feature film."
Rothman later stated her rationale for the script:
Girls in beach pictures were usually very passive. The idea that she would assume her athletic prowess could be as good as his was very alien. We wanted a story in which the two characters each had a very strong sense of self-esteem: the boy not wanting to admit that the girl could be as worthy as he, the girl not willing to let him believe that he was better than her.