I am terrible with the proper names of things. If it's capitalized, chances are I won't remember it.
I can remember everything that was said, the way it was said. I can remember inferences and recount them years later. I just can't remember the Proper names of things.
This becomes really awful with films. Now that we have so many films available to us, I want to revisit some of the old films I saw on television on Sunday afternoons in the 70s, when I was just a kid.
There's one in particular that's been bugging me for years, and if any of you can remember the name of the film or anyone who was in the film, I'll be eternally grateful.
This film, by the way, is not "Surf Nazis Must Die!" ...although "Surf Nazis Must Die" is a spoof, in part, on the film I'm looking for...
The film was shot, I'd say, sometime between 1965 and 1968.
It's about a teenager who comes to Los Angeles, Beach Cities, definitely. He has a movie script he's written. He meets a surfer girl at the beach, and her dad is a big time movie producer. There are a number of subplots. Her father loves the script, but he keeps trying to steal it from the hero. The surfer kids are being terrorized by a clean cut biker gang who call themselves "The Nazis", dress as Nazis and refer to their leader as "The fuhrer". The beach girl's mother is trying to come on to the hero.
The father starts shooting the film, but because he couldn't steal the script, he keeps trying to kill the hero, even as the hero is living in his house. ...and the hero catches on, but he stays with them to try to get his movie through production. There's a scene where these real bikers (looked like Hell's Angels) spiked the punch at a surfer kids' party with LSD. In the end, as I recall, the father is in league with the Surf Nazi Bikers, and hires them to kill the hero so he can steal credit for writing the script.
The evil father and "The fuhrer" end up falling down a mechanical contraption used to give the family access to the beach. The film ends with "The fuhrer's" next in command putting on the fuhrer's hat and saying something like, "The fuhrer is dead. I'm the fuhrer now. Long live the fuhrer!" ...and the rest of the biker gang gives a nazi salute and answer's "Long live the fuhrer!"
Believe it or not, the production quality was bad. A "B" movie? ...it was more like a "C" or "D". I remember seeing microphone booms come into the frame. The acting was terrible... And I LOVED IT!
It was as if The Cramps had made a surf movie!
So anyway, like I said, it must have been made between say '65 and '68. And if anybody knows the name of this film--or anyone who was in the film--I'd really appreciate it.
AND NO, IT WAS NOT "SURF NAZIS MUST DIE"!
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The Angry Breed
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May you and everyone you love live in as much happiness as is humanly possible.
I've been looking for that for years!
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Here's a synopsis I found:
THE ANGRY BREED 1968
U.S. film. Hawaii Five-O's "Danno" as a Nazi biker dressed in full SS storm trooper regalia! He rapes a 60s bikini beach babe on Malibu beach—luckily she’s saved by a teen hero! Hero gets a break in the movie business then gets the royal shaft from big Hollywood producer! Bizarre semi-nude exotic dancer LSD costume party! Wild garage fuzz rock that sounds like Steppenwolf meets the Count V! Bikers, hippies, homos, weirdos, boozers, LSD and rock n roll! Sixties rock n roll by Jaime and The Jury, and The Orphan Egg. Murray MacLeod, James MacArthur, William Windom, Jan Murray, Jan Sterling, Lori Martin, Melody Patterson, Burt Taylor. The Angry Breed!
Oh yeah! ...and an authentic garage track too!
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That movie looks like purest distilled awesomeness.
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No problem. Constant Viewer's movie-fu is strong. BTW, (1) it looks absolutely awful, and (2) apparently there are VHS copies available.
"love is like porn, you know" -- Ali
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Huh. I was sure it was Gidget
seriously though, i think you're crazy on this. and you think i'm crazy. everybody wins! - dhex
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I'm with Shem.
I gotta see this somehow.
I am not young enough to know everything.
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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Gidget had its moments.
I remember seeing an episode where Gidget was in a surf band, and they billed themselves as "The Groovy Ghoulies".
They all dressed up. ...well they dressed up Goth. They all had the white, pancake makeup and... They played surf music! If The Cramps were 10 years ahead of their time, then The Groovy Ghoulies were 20 years ahead of their time. ...except it was mainstream. It was Gidget!
I mean, she was the TV answer to Annette Funicello! ...of course the Surf movie Funicello was the answer to the TV Funicello too, but that's another story.
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Those of you who want to see it, know before hand what it is...
It's trash. It's bad acting. It's poor camera work. It's implausible situations.
...and to me, that's wonderful!
And if you think that's wonderful, why not make it a double feature and get "Trolls 2" as well. It's the same kinda thing but in an '80s horror genre. In its own way, it's wonderful too. So many memorable scenes!
It's what "Evil Dead 2" would have been if "Evil Dead 2" had been a bad movie. ...it would have been wonderful!
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Ken,
Have you ever seen Lord Love a Duck? I caught it as the UHF late-night movie, like back in the 70's. One of those things where years later you're going "did I really see that?" It's dark comedy set in upscale teenage 60's California. I'm not sure if you'd like it. There's a lot of dialog and if you're not paying attention, none of it makes any sense. But it does have this line in it, "In our family we don't divorce our men; we *bury* 'em!"
seriously though, i think you're crazy on this. and you think i'm crazy. everybody wins! - dhex
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Wait, I thought Annette Funicello was TV's answer to Annette Funicello? What was she famous for then?
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What country are you from Shem? Or should I say comrade? Every red blooded American knows Annette was a Mouseketeer. And if you ask me what a "Mouseketeer" is, I'm going to have to have you declared an enemy combatant.
seriously though, i think you're crazy on this. and you think i'm crazy. everybody wins! - dhex
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...You mean like Britney Spears?
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Funicello, whose breasts urban legend has it the Disney people taped down for her last year or two as a Mouneketeer, did a number of beach movies after Sandra Dee was the original movie Gidget. TV's Gidget was, of course, 2 time Oscar winner and Flying Nun, Sally Field. Funicello, btw, contracted MS in the 80s, effectively ending her career.
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But, was she on TV or wasn't she? And where were the Mousekateers aired if not on TV?
I actually remember the MS thing, because she parleyed it into several books and even a TV movie about her life.
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Okay, Shem.
Yeah, Annette Funicello = Super Mouseketeer. The Micky Mouse Club being on television.
I was suggesting that Surf Movie Annette Funicello (w/Frankie Avalon) was a movie reaction to Annette Funicello the Mouseketeer.
Gidget was a TV reaction to Surf Movie Annette Funicello...
The Flying Nun was a--nevermind. We've almost gotten to the year I was born.
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Funicello was one of the original Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club (on TV).
"love is like porn, you know" -- Ali
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I think this is the sort of thing you had to live through as a kid in order to have it encoded into your DNA. Because I still don't understand.
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What don't you understand?
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I don't understand why Annette's navel was alwys covered up in those beach movies.
Edit for spelling.
The sun is barely up and the streets are already filled with drunken Scots. That can't be good. - mk
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One incarnation of Annette spawning other incarnations. It was the same chick.
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Well that's the reaction to Annette the Mouseketeer part.
Besides there were plenty other bikinis with plenty other navels.
Just, you know, from the questions Shem's askin'. I don't think he's ready for "The Angry Breed". It may like a generational sensibility he's missing or something. ...but like I said, all this stuff was made before I was born too. ...or when I was a toddler.
At the very least, he'll need to see "Beach Blanket Bingo" to get the gist. "The Angry Breed" as I recall isn't like "Surf Nazis Must Die" in that it's laughing at itself. It's all very serious stuff.
Just to get to the stuff that is laughing at itself, you know, as a point of contrast, he should probably digest at least one of the following:
"Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine"
"The Ghost with the Invisible Bikini"
"How to Stuff a Wild Bikini"
And I would suggest any one of a dozen biker flicks made between '66 and '68 too. 'cause you gotta know what that's about.
I don't think people in their 20s today have any sense of context for these things. As if "Batman" the TV show just sprung full bodied from nothing.
I was writing about one degree of separation, did you guys know that smacky was ambushed into making out with Dick Dale?
Dick. Dale.
Dick Dale. Evel Knievel. Sonny Jurgensen. It's like the mystery of the trinity there. They've all got this certain something. And smacky made out with one of them.
How cool is that!
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Annette the Mouseketeer was incredibly wholesome. She was the 50s daughter everyone wanted. She was the good daughter on "Father Knows Best".
Annette the Surf Movie star kept that too. ...but she was also in Surf movies. ...with bikinis! And that means WILD!!!
Gidget was basically Annette Funicello the Surfer Girl too. She just brought that character to television from the movies.
Just like The Beatles brought The Monkees to television by way of the movie "Help".
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Y'know, I have seen terrible surf movies before. Though it might very well be a generational thing. Some movies and TV shows are like Polio; if you don't get them when you're a kid, you never will. My generation has Saved By The Bell. Yours apparently have surf movies. Aresen's had watching cave paintings dry. It's all generational.
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If it was Sonny Jurgensen, I may actually be too young for her!
"love is like porn, you know" -- Ali
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I guess the only thing they had in common were being my childhood heroes. ...and that certain somethin'.
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I wasn't even born when those movies were made. My generation had Saved By The Bell too.
...and the B-52's first two albums.
Speaking of Saved by the Bell, that's a pretty good analogy. ...when what's her name went from doing Saved by the Bell to that awful movie she was in where she was naked 3/4 of the time, what was it, "Showgirls"?
That's why good girls on TV do Playboy--to change their image.
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Bummer...I just looked at Dick Dale's website. He has ass cancer. :(
I was wondering why he didn't tour through Cleveland this year.
I hope he recovers ok.
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I'm sorry to hear that. Me too. I hope he recovers okay too.
A lot of times that just needs surgery. It's inconvenient, but maybe he'll be okay. I sure hope so.
He still comes through Hermosa Beach now and again too, and I've been looking for him to bill.
He should be famous like Jimi Hendrix. I know he's famous and everybody that can play knows him and his music.
But everybody EVERYBODY should know Dick Dale. So much of popular culture wouldn't have been what it was, wouldn't be what it is without him. He's a great musician.
And, you know, I LOVE surf music. But even apart from that, he's a great musician. God bless him.
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Here's a good thought for Dick Dale also.
I don't know if this applied to movies too, but until fairly recently on TV, you weren't allowed to show navels. I know this was still true when Star Trek (original series) was on.
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[insert dirty joke about the Admiral's daughter's navel base and discharged seamen here]
"love is like porn, you know" -- Ali
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The quintessential example of navel censorship is Barbra Eden.
seriously though, i think you're crazy on this. and you think i'm crazy. everybody wins! - dhex
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Crap. My Donna turned me on to him via Calling Up Spirits.
The sun is barely up and the streets are already filled with drunken Scots. That can't be good. - mk
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She was so much hotter than Elizabeth Montgomery. Anyone who thinks otherwise has no conception of what H-O-T is all about.
The sun is barely up and the streets are already filled with drunken Scots. That can't be good. - mk
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What surprises me about that observation is the notion that it would need to be made. I always considered Montgomery (even in her Twilight Zone performance as Eve) to be the girl next door type, the apotheosis of which is Myrna Loy. Eden's persona was far too bubbly and, dare I say it, bimbo-ish for my tastes but clearly, perhaps as a direct result, hotter.
[cue smacky calling me a misogynist in 6.. 5.. 4.. 3..]
"love is like porn, you know" -- Ali
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Barbara Eden was more in the "sex kitten" vein, I think Elizabeth Montgomery was supposed to be more of a Doris Day type...
...and if we start breaking that down any further, we are going to start sounding so gay. ...not that there's anything wrong with being gay.
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"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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That's just wrong.
It does make me think of that other film from the era...what's the name of that film? ...um...
"Harold and Maude"!