The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini

Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
Directed byDon Weis
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyStanley Cortez
Edited byEve Newman
Music byLes Baxter
Production
company
Distributed byAIP
Release date
  • April 6, 1966 (1966-04-06) (Boston)[1]
Running time
82 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$600,000[2]
Box office$1.5 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[3]

Ghost in the Invisible Bikini is a 1966 American fantasy comedy film. It is the seventh and last of American International Pictures' beach party films. The film features the cast cavorting in and around a haunted house and the adjacent swimming pool.

Besides the usual bikini-clad cast, random singing, silly plot line, musical guests, and ridiculous chases and fight scenes, the continuity linking this to the other beach films is the Rat Pack motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck), as well as the appearance of previous beach party alumni Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Bobbi Shaw, Jesse White, Aron Kincaid, Quinn O'Hara and Boris Karloff.[4]

Pop singer Nancy Sinatra, who was on the rise at the time just before the film was released, has a supporting role and performs one song written for the film; and The Bobby Fuller Four appear as themselves and sing two songs. Claudia Martin, daughter of Dean Martin, co-stars in the film as Lulu. The Italian starlet Piccola Pupa appears as herself and sings a song.

  1. ^ "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini – Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 30, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
  2. ^ Samuel Z Arkoff & Richard Turbo, Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants, Birch Lane Press, 1992 p 129
  3. ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1966", Variety, 4 January 1967, p. 8
  4. ^ Stephen Jacobs, Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster, Tomahawk Press 2011 p 470-471