It's a Bikini World

It's a Bikini World (1967)

Male chauvinist Mike attempts to get an intelligent burgeoning feminist Delilah into his harem. When she resists, Mike then poses as his brother Herbert, but in the process falls in love with Delilah.

Date of release
1967-04-14
TMDB
3.9 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Stephanie Rothman

Casting

Interesting facts

It's a Bikini World is a 1967 American musical comedy film starring Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley and Bobby Pickett. The film features cameos by the music groups the Gentrys, the Animals, Pat & Lolly Vegas, the Castaways and R&B girl group the Toys. Featuring a pro-feminist plotline, it is the only film in the beach party genre to be directed by a woman.

Production

It's a Bikini World was partly financed by Roger Corman, who disliked musicals on the whole but invested in some beach movies such as this and Beach Ball. He hired his protégé Stephanie Rothman to direct and Rothman's husband Charles S. Swartz to produce, and Rothman and Swartz co-wrote the script. Rothman said "This was one of the last beach pictures made, possibly the last.

Rothman later stated her rationale for the script:

Girls in beach pictures were usually very passive. The idea that she would assume her athletic prowess could be as good as his was very alien. We wanted a story in which the two characters each had a very strong sense of self-esteem: the boy not wanting to admit that the girl could be as worthy as he, the girl not willing to let him believe that he was better than her.

The movie was originally entitled The Girl in Daddy's Bikini. In October, 1965 Kirk signed on to do the film, which then was to be released by Paramount. He had just finished Ghost in the Invisible Bikini with Deborah Walley who was also hired.

It's a Bikini World was filmed in November 1965 but not released until the spring of 1967. The fact that the film was shot off-season (when the beaches were less crowded, which was typical for beach party films) is noticeable from the foliage and the Hollywood Boulevard Christmas decorations appearing onscreen.

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