Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

zetes The kind of movie that makes you a little stupider as you watch it. If you let your IQ drop enough, it's enjoyable. It's cheap drive-in stuff from the mid-60s starring Tommy Kirk (whose 1965 film Village of the Giants I watched early on this month). The story is very poorly cobbled together. Boris Karloff plays a recently deceased man. An old girlfriend who died when she was young (Susan Hart) comes to his coffin to tell him that she'll help him do a good deed to get him into Heaven. Hart goes to Earth as the titular ghost (whose invisible bikini shows not skin, but whatever is behind her, i.e., a blue bikini against a blue screen) to prevent Karloff's evil lawyer (Basil Rathbone) from getting Karloff's treasure before his descendants (Kirk and others) can find it. It's mostly worth watching for the plethora of hot girls in bikinis and the enjoyable 60s pop music they sing. Nancy Sinatra co-stars and sings a song.

John Howard Reid Although billed as a guest, Rathbone is actually a major player in this labored farce. Despite ploddingly pedestrian direction and unfunny dialogue, the film still manages to held one's interest, thanks mainly to the game efforts of the players (particularly Quinn O'Hara) and the use of American-International's standing horror sets (which certainly give the movie "class"). The songs also are catchy enough, although it's Nancy Sinatra who provides the stand-out number, "Geronimo". She then, alas, disappears as the spotlight shifts to the nubile Quinn O'Hara. I'm not complaining, but it would have been nice to see more of Nancy as well. Karloff fans will also be disappointed as the king of menace is given little to do but comment on the action from time to time. Oddly, although everything has been thrown into the pot in a desperate attempt to make the picture as appealing as possible, contemporary audiences stayed away. For all its heavy-handedness, however, the movie bears at least a little bemused watching. And, as said, it's an absolute must-see for Nancy Sinatra and Quinn O'Hara fans.

Michael_Elliott Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, The (1966) * 1/2 (out of 4) An old man (Boris Karloff) dies but can't get into Heaven until he does a good deed so his ghost goes back to make sure his crooked lawyer (Basil Rathbone) doesn't rip his family off. This is a stupid mix of horror and those Beach Party movies, which doesn't work on either level. One has to wonder what type of smoke was being passed around at the studio who said okay to this film. I'm really not sure how much of a demade there was for a horror Beach Party movie but I hope this thing made money for them. This isn't the worst film ever made but I can't say I enjoyed too much of it. The supporting players are all rather bland and the teens are just downright annoying as is the music, directing and pretty much everything else. Rathbone appears to be having fun in his role and Karloff is good in the few scenes he's in. Fans of the two legends might want to watch this once but you've been warned.

fguerras I have a special affection for this little trifle. I saw it at our post theater twice when I was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. It was a time when we were killing time, just waiting to be discharged, and this film conjures up a time of innocence when I was dying to re-start my civilian life. But most of all, I was (and still am) a tremendous fan of Miss Nancy Sinatra, especially all through my Army days, and it was thrilling fun to go see her movies at the post theater. She also did "The Wild Angels" and "The Last of the Secret Agents." All the other commentators are right. No classic, but mindless, harmless fun ! Oh, Nancy ! We were so young, and it was a different world !