Palm Springs Weekend
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Duration Country United States | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Screenplay Earl Hamner, Jr. Writer Earl Hamner Jr. Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 5, 1963 (1963-11-05) Cast (Jim Munroe), (Gayle Lewis - Jane Hoover), (Doug 'Stretch' Fortune), (Bunny Dixon), (Eric Dean), (Police Chief Dixon) Similar movies Piranha 3D , Girl Happy , Spring Break , , Spring Breakers , Ressha Sentai ToQger Vs. Kamen Rider Gaim: Spring Vacation Combined Special Tagline IT'S WHERE THE BOYS ARE AND THE GIRLS ARE...that swingin' vacation weekend when American youth descends on America's swankiest playground! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Palm Springs Weekend is a 1963 Warner Bros. bedroom comedy film directed by Norman Taurog. It has elements of the beach party genre (AIP's Beach Party became a smash hit in July, while Warner Bros. was still putting this film together) and has been called “a sort of Westernized version of Where the Boys Are" by Billboard magazine. It stars Troy Donahue, Stefanie Powers, Robert Conrad, Ty Hardin, and Connie Stevens.
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- Plot
- Cast
- Release
- Home video
- References
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Plot
A group of college students from Los Angeles travel to Palm Springs to spend the Easter weekend there. Student Jim Munroe (Troy Donahue) falls for Bunny Dixon (Stefanie Powers), the daughter of the overprotective Palm Springs police chief (Andrew Duggan). Munroe's room mate Biff Roberts (Jerry Van Dyke) and plain-jane Amanda North (Zeme North) try to seduce each other, while hampered by having to babysit an inquisitive young boy (the son of hotelier Naomi Yates, who has just met and is romancing the group's chaperone, coach Fred Campbell). Spoiled rich playboy Eric Dean (Robert Conrad) and Hollywood stuntman from Texas Doug Fortune (Ty Hardin) compete for the attentions of a pretty girl (Connie Stevens) from Beverly Hills. A wild auto chase between Eric and Doug, and serious crash ensue on the long drive home after an evening at a folk music club in Las Vegas, but all ends well.
Cast
Syndicated columnist, radio and television talk show host and personality Shirley Eder makes a cameo as herself in the record store scene; Mike Henry plays the parking valet at the Riviera Hotel; Dawn Wells and Linda Gray appear as featured extras in non-speaking roles.
Release
The film was released to decent reviews. It was not a major success at the box office but made a profit for the studio.
The movie had a long life on television and video. Earl Hamner later recalled, "When the phone rings around midnight, I know it's someone calling to tell me, 'Earl, Palm Springs Weekend is on'."
Robert Conrad says his performance impressed Warners enough for them to keep him under contract for a number of years. Troy Donahue later complained that the film was "really bad... a beach movie set in the desert".
A book of the same title by Marvin H. Albert was released by Dell Publishing at the same time.
Home video
The film was released on VHS on September 1, 1998, whereas the DVD version was released in 2009. The DVD is part of the Warner Bros. Romance Classics Collection, which also contains three other films starring Troy Donahue: Parrish (1961), Rome Adventure (1962) and Susan Slade (1961).
References
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