According to Diabolique magazine, the Beach Party movies "weren’t all about songs, sex, and surfing they were also about friendship, and you really notice the entries where the lead male isn’t good friends with Ashley – in Beach Blanket Bingo it’s downright stressful to see him and Avalon as strangers." Deleted sequences and songs John Ashley, who played Ken in Beach Party, and Johnny in both Muscle Beach Party and Bikini Beach, returns in this movie as Steve, playing opposite his real-life wife Deborah Walley. He gets to sing his own song titled "Follow Your Leader" (which he reprises as "I Am My Ideal" for the follow-up How to Stuff a Wild Bikini). The Rat Pack leader character Eric Von Zipper is given more screen time in this third film. The character of Deadhead in Beach Party, Muscle Beach Party and Bikini Beach is called Bonehead in this film because AIP had decided the term Deadhead was a so-called "bankable noun" and had decided to cast Avalon as the title character of its upcoming Sergeant Deadhead. Įlsa Lanchester was announced for a small role off the back of her performance in Pajama Party but does not appear in the final film. ![]() That made her uncomfortable, causing her to drop out. ![]() This change was due in part to the fact that the plot involved a kidnapping, somewhat reminiscent of her brother Frank Sinatra Jr.'s kidnapping a few months before shooting began. ![]() The part of Sugar Kane, played by Linda Evans, was intended for Nancy Sinatra.
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