The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini

Infobox Film
name = The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini


caption = film poster by Reynold Brown
director = Don Weis
producer = Samuel Z. Arkoff James H. Nicholson
writer = Louis M. Heyward Elwood Ullman
narrator =
starring = Deborah Walley Tommy Kirk Basil Rathbone Aron Kincaid Quinn O'Hara Boris Karloff Jesse White Dwayne Hickman
music = Les Baxter
cinematography = Stanley Cortez
editing = Eve Newman
distributor =
released = 1966
runtime = 82 min.
country = U.S.
language =
budget =
preceded_by = "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini"
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:92920
imdb_id = 0060457

"The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini" was the seventh (and last) of the American International Pictures Beach Party films and was released in 1966.

ynopsis

The ghost of recently dead Mr. Hiram Stokley (Boris Karloff) finds that he has 24 hours to perform one good deed to get into Heaven. He enlists the help of his long dead girlfriend, Cecily, to stop his lawyer, Reginald Ripper, and henchman from claiming the estate for themselves. The real heirs, Chuck, Lili, Hiram's cousin Myrtle, and her son bring their beach party friends to the mansion for a pool party while Reginald Ripper also employs his daughter Sinistra, and J. Sinister Hulk's slow-witted associates Chicken Feather and Yolanda to help them terrorize the teens, while dopey biker Eric Von Zipper and his Malibu Rat Pack bikers also get involved in pursuing Yolanda for a share of the estate.

Cast

*Tommy Kirk .... Chuck Phillips
*Deborah Walley .... Lili Morton
*Aron Kincaid .... Bobby
*Quinn O'Hara .... Sinistra
*Jesse White .... J. Sinister Hulk
*Harvey Lembeck .... Eric Von Zipper
*Nancy Sinatra .... Vicki
*Claudia Martin .... Lulu
*Francis X. Bushman .... Malcolm
*Benny Rubin .... Chicken Feather
*Bobbi Shaw .... Princess Yolanda
*George Barrows .... Monstro
*Basil Rathbone .... Reginald Ripper
*Patsy Kelly .... Myrtle Forbush
*Boris Karloff .... The Corpse (Hiram Stokely)
*Susan Hart .... The Ghost (Cecily)
*Piccola Pupa .... Piccola
*Luree Holmes .... Luree
*Ed Garner .... Ed
*Frank Alesia .... Frank
*Mary Hughes .... Mary
*Salli Sachse .... Salli
*Patti Chandler .... Patti
*Sue Hamilton .... Sue
*Alberta Nelson .... Rat Pack member (Puss)
*Andy Romano .... J.D.
*Myrna Ross .... Rat Pack member (Boots)
*Jerry Brutsche .... Rat Pack member (Jerome)
*Bob Harvey .... Rat Pack member (Bobby)
*John Macchia .... Rat Pack member (Joey)
*Allen Fife .... Rat Pack member (Beard)

Trivia

The film was originally titled "The Girl in the Glass Bikini". This title was used at the end of "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine", which is unofficially part of the Beach Party film series.

Interestingly, this is the only one of the "beach" movies that "didn't" take place on the beach, but, rather, in a haunted house.

Before filming, both Franky (Frankie Avalon) and DeeDee (Annette Funicello) decided they had had enough of the beach films, choosing instead to star together in Fireball 500. Audiences didn't take as well to "Chuck and Lili", and the film was considered a box office flop. AIP decided to end the series with this film, although there was an attempt to resurrect the series with 1987's "Back to the Beach".