Claudia Martin Movies
- 1966
American-International's Beach Party series came to an abrupt end with Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. Because of such tangible reasons as contractual commitments, coupled with such intangibles as illness and death, most of the series "regulars" are absent. Deborah Walley and Aron Kinkaid fill the roles usually played by Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, while Benny Rubin plays a comic-Indian role obviously intended for Buster Keaton. Only Harvey Lembeck, as the inimitable Eric von Zipper, is on hand from the good old days. The plot is set in motion by the ghostly Boris Karloff, a corpse who must perform one good deed before gaining entrance into the Hereafter. Together with a sexy spirit (Susan Hart) (the titular lass in the invisible bikini), the corpse attempts to save the heiress (Walley) from the murderous machinations of a greedy attorney (Basil Rathbone) and his cohorts (Rubin and Jesse White). Music is provided by such second-generation celebs as Nancy Sinatra and Claudia Martin, and with The Bobby Fuller Four lip-synching a pair of songs. The climax is a less-funny reworking of the final sequence in Beach Blanket Bingo, with the heroine (Walley) strapped to the longest buzzsaw plank in film history. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, (more)
- 1965
- R
The beautiful slopes of the Austrian Alps provide the setting for this lively romantic comedy that centers on an American music student who earns money by working as a ski instructor at a popular resort. He is dismayed to learn that part of his job involves entertaining certain guests after hours. Fortunately, most of his nighttime clients are beautiful young girls. Still, unlike the other instructors, the American tries to avoid the romantic shenanigans until he meets a pretty new guest who is equally unimpressed by the mandatory wooing of the others. At first she and the Yankee do not hit it off, but later, after he wins an exciting ski-jumping contest, she falls in love with him. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Martin Milner, Claudia Martin, (more)
- 1964
In this beach movie, a group of teenagers hang out at the Silver Palms everyday after school. Because things can get quite raucous in the club, the protagonist's grandfather wants to shut it down. When the clever kids discover that grandpa used to be a bootlegger, they blackmail him into keeping it open. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, (more)
