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Musical Monday: Out of Sight (1966)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Out of Sight (1966) – Musical #847

Studio:
Universal Pictures

Director:
Lennie Weinrib

Starring:
Jonathan Daly, Karen Jensen, Robert Pine, Carolyne Barry (billed as Carole Shelyne), Wende Wagner, Maggie Thrett, Deanna Lund, Norman Grabowski, John Lawrence, Jimmy Murphy, Richard Dawnson (uncredited)
Themselves: Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Turtles, Freddie and The Dreamers, Dobie Gray, The Knickerbockers, The Astronauts

Plot:
Villainous Big D (Lawrence) has a plan to get rid of teenagers and their rock n’ roll music. Beach partier Sandra (Jensen) overhears the plot, and the only thing she can think of to do is enlist the help of top secret agent John Stamp. However, she taps the wrong person for the job, and gets his butler, Homer (Daly), to help instead.

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Musical Monday: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini– Musical #291

Studio: American International Pictures

Director: William Asher

Starring:
Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, Buster Keaton, Frankie Avalon, Beverly Adams, Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley, Mickey Rooney, Michael Nadar, Sheila MacRae, Marianne Gordon, Len Lesser, Bobbi Shaw, Stephanie Nader, Sue Hamilton (as Sue Williams), Michele Carey (uncredited)
Themselves: The Kingsmen
Cameo: Elizabeth Montgomery

Plot:
While Frankie (Avalon) is away in the Navy on an island, he worries Dee Dee (Funicello) is being as unfaithful as he is. He works with witch doctor Bwana (Keaton) to use magic to spy on Dee Dee to see if she’s faithful. Bwana also creates a sexy distraction, Cassandra (Adams), to keep all the boys away from her. Advertising representatives Peachy Keane (Rooney) and Ricky (Hickman) arrive on the beach to pick an all American girl for their ad campaign with B.D. MacPherson (Donlevy) to change the image of motorcycles, and Ricky falls for Dee Dee.

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