Muscle Beach (film)

For the film based on the novel Muscle Beach, see Don't Make Waves.
Muscle Beach
Directed by
Music byEarl Robinson
Release date
  • 1948 (1948)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Muscle Beach is a 1948 short documentary film directed by Joseph Strick and Irving Lerner, showing amateur athletes and bodybuilders at the original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, California. The soundtrack consists of songs sung by Earl Robinson.

Muscle Beach and The Savage Eye (1959) were restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2009 and 2008, respectively.[1] The films premiered in February 2009 at San Francisco Cinematheque.[2]

  1. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
  2. ^ Marlow, Jonathan (18 February 2009). "Joseph Strick: The Savage Eye & Muscle Beach Restored". San Francisco Cinematheque.