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Muscle Beach Party (1964) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by William Asher and produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson.

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Musical Monday: “Muscle Beach Party” (1964)

on Mar 10, 2014 From Comet Over Hollywood

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 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: ?Muscle Beach Party” &... Read full article


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[watches the climatic rumble betweent the beach bums and muscle maniacs]
Cappy: Oh no! They're not gonna wreck my place again?
[a beach bum is flung over a table, breaking it]
Cappy: [depressed tone] Oh, yes they are.


[Dee Dee walk in on Julie making out with Frankie]
Frankie: Dee Dee, hi. Um... you remember her? Her name's Julie.
Dee Dee: Oh, I remember her. The bride of Godzilla!


S.Z. Matts: [Seeing kids dancing] You know if there was no music here this place would be raided.


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Average Shot Length = ~5.4 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~4.9 seconds.
This is the only film in the series not to feature Eric Von Zipper and his gang the Rats.
This was the first acting role for Peter Lupus who is playing Flex Martian under the name "Rock Stevens". This would lead to an early career in Europe where he would play the lead role in various sword and sandal/mythological muscleman movies that were then in vogue.
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