Operation Bikini (1963)

Directed by

Anthony Carras

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, a group of American soldiers on a Pacific island go on a mission to destroy a Japanese radio station. The film mixes war action with musical numbers and a light tone.

lighthearteddatedmusicalaction-tingedbreezycampyuneven

What happens

Operation Bikini, also titled The Seafighter, is a war film released in 1963 by American International Pictures. It was directed by Anthony Carras and starred Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon and Scott Brady. The casting was aimed to capture a varied audience. While Operation Bikini was nominally a World War II war movie, it shared a number of cast members—Avalon, Jody McCrea and Eva Six—with American International's Beach Party (soon to become a franchise), and thrown into the mix were character actor Jim Backus, former screen heartthrob Tab Hunter and Gary Crosby (son of Bing). Avalon sings in two musical interludes, which were shot in color despite the fact that, aside from the closing credits, the rest of the film is black and white. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• Legacy of the 500,000 (1963)
• Back Door to Hell (1964)
• The Quick and the Dead (1963)
• Cry of Battle (1963)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• Navy (1963)
• Guadalcanal Diary (1943)