There's one thing it took me forever to notice about this series. In the early movies, they smoke and drink (beer, at least). In this one, "Big Drag" makes a point of saying that he doesn't sell liquor or cigarettes to the surfers. This might be before the phrase "role model" really took off, but maybe they were trying to get on the good side of parents. It might not be mentioned here, but "Clyde" the chimpanzee is played by Janos Prohaska, an actor who specialized in playing apes and monsters (he wore the same suit in a famous Outer Limits episode). One of Don Rickles best moments is when Keenan Wynnn is lecturing him - you really have to watch the frown on his face, because even for Rickles, it's hilarious. And Harvey Lembeck had some of his best moments of the series, when he becomes "strange bedfellows" with Wynn's character, then feels betrayed when Wynn sides with Martha Hyer - "It's a regular Delilah and Simpson!" I don't think anyone here has mentioned the cameo at the end, which, as usual, was by a horror actor. The man whose face is never shown (in other scenes) walks in during the fight between the surfers and the motorcycle gang, and it turns out to be Boris Karloff. He says a few lines, looks around at the fighting and says, "Monsters."
Review of Bikini Beach
