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The Boys... The Girls... and that wild, way-out, wicked, wonderful beat!
A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees.
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965 Directed by Alvin Ganzer
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10 Oct 1965
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A lot of the beach party films on the Wikipedia list I'm working my way through might be up for debate as to how beach-y they are but this movie is probably the biggest stretch of the bunch. It's set on a ranch in Nevada which is about as far from the beach as you can get and there are little to no young person hijinks. Didn't really enjoy this at all.
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Two cars go through one another in a car chase without any accidents. Then there's some nice musical guest stars. The story doesn't make much sense.
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Bottom line, this movie is pretty bad. The story is a typical plot: bad boy meets nice girl and becomes a stand up guy. The actors are forgettable, and the music...
The music! There's no consistency to it. One minute you have Sue Ane Langdon singing about wanting her man to treat her rough (wow), followed by some Gershwin standards, Herman's Hermits singing a pop song (Listen People, which is NOT a dance number, being sung in a dance club), and Connie Francis belting out some melancholy ballads. Then Louis Armstrong, and the icing on the cake, Liberace, of all people, singing a little Island number! On a ranch in Nevada. None of it makes a bit of sense. It…
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If you’re looking to make an example of Hollywood’s identity crisis in the 1960s, this movie is it. A wealthy playboy decides to impress a down-on-her-luck postal worker (Connie Francis) by turning her family’s ranch into an extended-stay hotel for Nevada divorcees, and somehow this requires Gershwin tunes, some rousing broadway choreography, Herman’s Hermits, Louis Armstrong, and Liberace. I could not make this up if I tried.
GOD the sixties were a wild and amazing time for cinema!!!
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Fine TCM surprise: a redo of GIRL CRAZY combining the Gershwin songs with 60s pop and shifting from desert to the mountains. Connie Francis/Harve Presnell in for Garland/Rooney with cameos from Louis Armstrong, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, and Liberace, and full supporting characters for Herman’s Hermits
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The third movie version of the Gershwin musical, "Girl Crazy"
Good: The movie has several musical cameos including Herman's Hermits, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Louis Armstrong, and Liberace
Bad: Connie Francis has a lovely voice but was not born to act.
Meh: The Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland version is better.