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...GIRL-GETTERS. Bird hunters fill their quota at a sleazy English seaside resort, where one young beachnik (Oliver Reed) shows a singular flair for wasting his youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 27, 1966 | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...Except for Tuesday Weld's Saturday-night zest, the audience's wishes are unfulfilled. Roddy McDowall, as a teen genie, enables Tuesday to vamp her high school principal, cavort seductively with her father, bury her mother, marry too soon, dispose of her young husband and become a beachnik movie star. All the nonsense strives to spoof the ethos of American youth, but the film's real message-which obviously appeals to Producer-Director-Writer George Axelrod-is delivered by Roddy, who ends up in a psychiatric ward extolling the bounties of "a dirty mind in a sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quack Caper | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...movie has one good surfing sequence and little else. Pamela Tiffin, James Darren, Tina Louise, Nancy Sinatra, Comedians Paul Lynde and Woody Woodbury struggle to get a foothold in the slippery story about a rich campus cutup and a poor coed. But the standout performer is a bearded beachnik called Kelp. He paints a small face on his chin, upside down. Then he covers himself with sand, leaving the bottom half of his face exposed, and spiels gags. The gags aren't funny, but in a movie like this the audience can readily identify with a man who buries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Surf Bore | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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