1h 41min | Comedy, Music, Romance | 2 June 1961 | Color, WS
Director: Paul Wendkos
Stars: James Darren, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley, Carl Reiner, Peggy Cass, Eddie Foy Jr., Jeff Donnell.
Roland Dupree ... choreographer
Watched online; mediocre print.
2 songs listed in Soundtracks; same on AFI. But we also get some dance numbers without lyrics.
And the dancing is the big surprise here: Michael Callan dances like a slightly less athletic Gene Nelson. Really good stuff! This and Pepe ('60) are his only music/als, and I don't remember him in Pepe. If I remove the feature film restriction, we gain 1 TV movie: Kiss Me Kate (1968), where he very likely dances, but I don't find it online today.
And the dancing is the big surprise here: Michael Callan dances like a slightly less athletic Gene Nelson. Really good stuff! This and Pepe ('60) are his only music/als, and I don't remember him in Pepe. If I remove the feature film restriction, we gain 1 TV movie: Kiss Me Kate (1968), where he very likely dances, but I don't find it online today.
Otherwise, this is pretty much what you'd expect from a Gidget movie, especially without the original Sandra Dee: meh.
distr. Columbia, dir. Wendkos; 6