Robert Cummings is a professor studying
the primitive habits of the American teenager, in the one that
started the three-year genre of beach movies: clean-cut partying
teens who thought the Beatles were too weird. These films were
reactions to the wild-youth, beatnik and rock-and-roll movies of
the late fifties and early sixties, so a kiss is the raciest
thing found here. Still, the bland production numbers are full of
wiggling bikini bottoms, and Walt Disney expressed his stern
disapproval of Annette Funicello, a former "Mouseketeer,"
revealing her belly button. With Frankie Avalon, Dorothy Malone. 
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