Muscle Beach Party (1964) Trailer

[ciscokidseven]

i wouldnt want to be a rat fink

[madrereus16]

THE ONLY MAN ON THE BEACH? SERIOUSLY?! WITH THOSE SASSY CLOTHES!!!

[slowdream101]

Nobody mentioned Don Rickles

[1beamer11]

Surfing was HUGE back then, they used to show contests on Wide World of Sports. Bodybuilding was legitimate back then as well and very popular. Don Rickles was in this movie as was James Brown, I was just a kid but was blown away by this (somewhat juvenile) movie, but hey I was just a kid! I still think about today, it is so cool to be able to see this stuff!

[1952kid]

Back in NY , on Long Island beaches there was some surfing in the 1960's , mostly people laying on blankets listing to transistor radio's . These were west coast movies. we knew better , we just saw the Beatles.

[JENDALL714]

I am guess I'm a rat fink! Never cared for these kinds of movies, these movies with the kids and their loud Rock and Roll, hip gyrating music!

[faffaflunkie]

This movie should have been entitled "Mafia Beach Party".

[tommiexander]

Berry Gordy was interested from the beginning with also making movies. But this was his first excursion into the movie arc. He also wanted to give Stevie Wonder more exposure, so he struck a deal with the producers of Muscle Beach Party to put Stevie in the 1963 film. He was 13 years old. Stevie was also in the follow up film, "Bikini Beach".

[Bizarronumber4]

Talk about your Swinging Sixties!

[mbalelo71717ku]

lol .. luvly beach party ..

[handafutou2007]

1:29 ～

Oh boy！"little"Stevie Wonder is Here！

[IwillKillYourCereal]

holy frieking crap! I didn't know that Stevie Wonder was in this movie :O

[classicphile]

@IwillKillYourCereal Stevie Wonder is also in the 1964 movie, Bikini Beach

[zbaby82]

That's just too funny!

[rstuartcpa]

I've been looking for the song at 1:09 everywhere! It's really starting to aggravate me. Does anyone know what song that is? I know it's Dick Dale, but I don't know what the song title is.

[Abdullu]

2:20 "And if this isn't your idea of fun, then you're a raped thing" ...?!?

[andreaaluminum]

@Abdullu I think it's "rat fink"

[Abdullu]

@andreaaluminum "Rat fink"? I guess that 's 60s l33tsp33k jargon.

[colindominy]

"Everybody's workin out on the sand .. from the latest dance craze to a wild handstand, now .. last year was great but this year is better .. you'd better grab your chick before the muscle man'll get her ". WONDERFUL !! In Australia, any weekend summer tourist can still to this day, go up to Palm Beach .. @ the northern end of Sydney, NSW .. where you'll continue to see a weird kind of fascimile of this basic beach-movie scene, being played-out before your eyes. A rich-set poseur's paradise !!

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

After reading some of the comments here, I have to say that the years of these beach party movies were indeed innocent times.

Forget the racial thing.

Those who loved the beach scene no matter if it was in the movies, real life or both, were not into discrimination.

It was the government that was.

The 1960's were bad times for most blacks.

My family though, treated everyone the same

However, that has nothing to do with the beach life.

For us, those were good times.

George Vreeland Hill

[blabblab1212]

How come all the dancers were having conniptions? No one really danced like this in the 60's. Some conservative fat cat producers idea of what young people dancing should be like.

[powergirl901]

Bikinis and fight scenes, you just don't find this in movies anymore. These were needed because the country was quite repressed about sexuality. You could only see a woman's breast in a magazine...in a barber shop in those days.

[dakotahstr]

Don't take this movie so seriously....It was just meant to entertain..to forget about other problems..there was none of this going back and forth in the 60's era..If you didnt like it you didnt watch it..just like rock and roll...its just a movie....

[topgeardel]

...but sadly lost on people who assume film producers forty five years ago should have anticipated the anal retentive levels of post-millennium political correctness.

LOL. Say what? whatever... it was still unrealistic for the time. Of course, you were around at the time to understand. Keen business or not, it was the black music culture trying to make inroads into the dominate white record market in a very racist time. They should have never had to do this crap. That's the point.

[mikeymars]

"If you want to look at it realisitically, why was a Motown/Detroit artist like Stevie Wonder performing at a California white club?"

REALISTICALLY?!? Oh, geeeez....

Stevie Wonder was cast because AIP had the foresight to identify emerging talent and book it for pennies on the dollar. Keen business acumen...but sadly lost on people who assume film producers forty five years ago should have anticipated the anal retentive levels of post-millennium political correctness.

[MrDennyman]

That's one way of looking at it. But it really wasn't an innocent time. If you want to look at it realistically, why was a Motown/Detroit artist like Stevie Wonder performing at a California white surf cult club? He didn't get the legal right to vote in the USA until the year this movie was made..lol. They were fun movies, but they had their bizarre moments. Like the Supremes singing surf songs in another beach type movie. "Innocent" movies and times if you had blinders over your eyes.

[classicphile]

"But it really wasn't an innocent time"

Im kinda aware of that fact.

"why was a Motown/Detroit artist like Stevie Wonder performing at a California white surf cult club"

Why not? The kids didnt care what race he was, why should Stevie mind?

"He didn't get the legal right to vote in the USA until the year this movie was made"

Wrong. In certain states that was true, but in other states he, among other blacks, were voting for decades before this movie came out.

[MrDennyman]

Voting Rights Act of 1965 guaranteed everyone's right to vote. It took our country 100 years to finish and reinforce by law what the Civil War intended for all African-Americans. So we are both right.

I guess you had to live during the time this movie was made to understand the contrived nature and irony of some of these beach movie scenes. In the end, it was Berry Gordy getting his stars more exposure to the white mainstream. Like I said, Wonder singing at a surf cult club??...lol.

[classicphile]

I love Muscle Beach Party (yes, even though Eric Von Zipper isnt in it). I just cant get enough of the Beach Party films. How much I LOVE the sheer innocence of these flicks. I wish they could bottle that innocence up and sell them in stores!

[sinnerpeace]

honesty dick dale could no sing

[OLO7]

lol some sorta 60s porn

[powergirl901]

Yes, this is porn because it's all about the physical aspects of flesh, hitting them and kissing them. But movies cost alot in those days, .50cents, so people got something for their money.

[starringJayMcK]

Sad news for Beach Movie fans. Actor Jody McCrea who played Bonehead in the beach movies passed away April 4th 2009. He suffered a heart attack at his ranch in Roswell, New Mexico. Born in 1943, Jody is the son of Western movie star Joel McCrea.

[Spartacus217]

Joel McCrea who played in "Dead End" with Humphrey Bogart?

[EarlSnohomish]

Yes. That Joel McCrea.

[starringJayMcK]

Hi Spartacus. Yes, the same Joel McCrea that was in Dead End with Bogart. That was Jody McCreas Dad. Jody being the actor who played Bonehead in the beach movies. I referred to Joel as a star of Westerns because he did so many of them. Including some with his son. But youre right, Joel did many other kind of roles besides Westerns, and was a great all-around leading man.

[Spartacus217]

My mother said Joel McCrea was the George Clooney of his times. Women melted around him.

[dapoetmaster]

This too is my least fave Beach Movie not least because no RATS n MICE!!

[Fersommling]

OK, OK, I dig the dancing chick, but where's my hero Eric von Zipper?!

[123JDB789]

Hymalayan Suspenders Treatment....

You Stupids....

[jhrunion]

Luciana Paluzzi!

[timmymylad]

Out of all the Beach Movies ever made,

"Muscle Beach Party" was my least favorite.

I didn't like it because Harvey Lembeck's character Eric Von Zipper was not in it.

It just wasn't the same without Von Zipper, his Rats & Mice! It aired today on TCM. October 16, 2008.

[Pacmanic]

Rat Fink! :)

[bob343536]

The announcer sounds like John Ashley - one of the co-stars.

[darremee]

Frankie Avalon is the clips announcer.

[SandySummers]

It is John Ashley.

[indiemotronic]

i'm not interested in their heads! ♥

[Modguy61]

Great clip; cool flick:)

[jerone2003]

Woman in red really shakes it!