Slumber party (film)
Movie | |
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German title | Slumber party |
Original title | Pajama party |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1964 |
length | 82 minutes |
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Director | Don Weis |
script | Louis M. Heyward |
production |
Samuel Z. Arkoff James H. Nicholson |
music | Les Baxter |
camera | Floyd Crosby |
cut |
Fred R. Feitshan's Eve Newman |
occupation | |
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Slumber Party is a 1964 American comedy film. The film is the fourth in a seven-part "Beach Movie" series produced by American International Pictures .
action
The inhabitants of the planet Mars are planning an invasion of the earth. The secret agent 006, Gogo, is sent to earth to prepare for the invasion. Gogo first meets the eccentric widow Wendy, who runs a boutique. Gogo, who calls himself George on Earth, wears a uniform to Wendy's amazement. Wendy gives him a bathing suit and sends him to the beach for a slumber party. There Gogo / George met Wendy's nephew Big Lunk, who was much more interested in volleyball than in his girlfriend Connie.
Complications arise when Wendy's neighbor J. Sinister Hulk plans to deprive the widow of the money she keeps in her house. Hulk's accomplices, the chief Rotten Eagle and the Swede Helga, are supposed to get him information about the hiding place. The motorcycle gang of Eric von Zippers, who is jealous of Big Lunk, bursts into the beach party. Gogo / George teleports the gang and also Hulk to Mars. At the same time, he can convince his superiors to call off the invasion. Gogo himself wants to stay on earth because he has meanwhile fallen in love with Connie. Big Lunk wins the attention of the Swede Helga, who doesn't understand a word of English.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films described the film as a "teenage comedy based on a simple pattern [...] with the old stars Buster Keaton and Dorothy Lamour in ungrateful supporting roles."
Dennis Schwartz wrote on the online portal "Ozus' World" that the film was of the kind of quirky teenage comedies where the chance to understand what it was about was better if you had less brain.
background
The premiere of the film took place in the USA on November 11, 1964. The film did not come into theaters in Germany. It was first shown on German television on November 20, 1993.
Dorothy Kilgallen , Dorothy Lamour , Don Rickles , Frankie Avalon , Teri Garr (under her pseudonym Teri Hope ), Toni Basil and Michael Nader can be seen in small supporting roles . The painting covering the safe is a portrait of Wendy's late husband, Henry. The picture is a portrait of the actor Keenan Wynn .
The musical interludes were choreographed by David Winters, Teri Garr and Toni Basil's dance teacher.
"Beach Movie" series of films
- 1963 Beach Party - Director: William Asher
- 1964: Muscle Beach Party - Director: William Asher
- 1964 Bikini Beach - Director: William Asher
- 1964: Slumber party
- 1965: Surf Beach Party ( Beach Blanket Bingo ) - Director: William Asher
- 1965 How to Stuff a Wild Bikini - Directed by William Asher
- 1966: The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini - Director: Don Weis
Web links
- Pajama party in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Original movie poster
Individual evidence
- ↑ Slumber Party. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Dennis Schwartz on Ozus' World (engl.)