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Hollywood has created two original film genres in the last ten years: the horror comedy and the beach picture. As its title suggests, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini is an attempt at reconciliation...
Having assembled this odd lot, Ghost makes no claims about its originality. The storyline, believe it or not, involves a boy and a girl who go to a haunted house in order to hear the reading of a will (Karloff's). Rathbone tries to scare them off with all kinds of fake monsters who emerge from all kinds of fake walls. Then the beach angle is introduced as a bunch of leftovers from Muscle Beach Party set up camp around the swimming pool, and a motorcycle gang finds its way into the haunted corridors...
From these inauspicious beginnings, Ghost goes wonderfully haywire. Maybe I should explain just who is this ghost in the invisible bikini and what does she want? Susan Hart plays her; her task on earth is to make sure Karloff's money finds its way to his proper heirs...
Anyway, the house at length becomes overcrowded with monsters and beach people, until a chain reaction sets in and Ghost spirals down to a groovy finish. In the interim director Don Weis proves himself no cigar, but a half-decent movie and a promising new genre emerge in spite...
...SCENE FOUR. Jane Ormsby Gore, 23, daughter of the former British Ambassador to the U.S., and a fashion assistant on British Vogue. Clad in tightly fitted, wine-red flared Edwardian jacket over a wildly ruffled white lace blouse, skintight, black bell-bottom trousers, silver-buckled patent leather shoes, ghost-white makeup and tons of eyelashes, she pops in to a cocktail party, not unlike the one Julie Christie goes to in Darling, at Robert Eraser's art gallery on Duke Street. There she sees Fashion Designer Pauline Fordham in a silver metallic coat, Starlet Sue Kingsford...