Operation Bikini (Amazon.com Exclusive) [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Tab Hunter Frankie Avalon Scott Brady Jim Backus Gary Crosby
	Video by:	MGM/UA Video
	Sales Rank:	127579

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Actor(s):
Tab Hunter
Frankie Avalon
Scott Brady
Jim Backus
Gary Crosby

Creators:
Gilbert Warrenton (Cinematographer)
Anthony Carras (Editor)
Homer Powell (Editor)
James H. Nicholson (Producer)
Lou Rusoff (Producer)
Samuel Z. Arkoff (Producer)
John Tomerlin (Writer)

Director(s):
Anthony Carras

Recording label: MGM/UA Video
EAN: 0027616863355
Binding: VHS Tape
Format: NTSC,
Release Date: 2001-02-20
Universal product code (UPC): 027616863355

Description
A Navy demolition team must destroy a sunken submarine before the Japanese get to the top-secret equipment aboard the vessel.

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Two-piece bathing suits don't show up until the closing credits, so anyone expecting Operation Bikini to be a precursor to the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is going to be disappointed at the sight of Jim Backus in swabbie gear. Still, you could do a lot worse than kill 83 minutes with this standard-issue World War II actioner set in the South Pacific theater, aimed at the teen audience favored by American International Pictures, and released just as the British Invasion was hitting the American pop-music charts. Frankie Avalon does his latter-day Sinatra thing as a lovesick submarine crewman (complete with full-color dream sequences as he sings about "The Girl Back Home"--the movie's only blatant promotional gimmick), and Tab Hunter does hunk duty as a demolitions expert assigned to blast a sunken U.S. sub on the Bikini atoll (site of later atomic bomb testing) before Japanese salvagers can steal its prototype radar equipment. That's pretty much it for plot, but it's aided immeasurably by lively dialogue and a cast of familiar '60s faces, from the aforementioned Backus (a year away from Gilligan's Island infamy), Gary Crosby, Scott Brady, and Michael Dante. Director Anthony Carras was moving up after editing several of AIP's biggest hits (he only made two other films), and while this routine programmer is hardly distinguished, it's a perfectly acceptable example of Kennedy-era entertainment, when WWII heroics still lingered in the memory of an increasingly youth-oriented nation. --Jeff Shannon

Running time: 77 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)