Storyline

The administrators of Wyndham Girl's College believe their institution is the model of traditional values, proper decorum and girl's deportment. There is however a thriving underground movement at the college of rock music. When the administrators learn just prior to the Christmas break that one of their students, Terry Taylor, is a renowned rock music songwriter using the pseudonym Joanie Harper whose songs contain seductively feminist lyrics, they have to decide how to deal with Terry, an otherwise academically bright student, and this possible scandal to the school. Meanwhile, many of the students head to Sun Valley for the Christmas break. Among those at the resort are the college's benefactor, Senator Hubert Morrison, who is conflicted between what he believes is Terry's immoral stance and courting the youth vote through their unofficial leader Terry, and Gary Underwood, Terry's publisher. Gary is trying to get Terry to do something she considers amoral and against her feminist sensibilities, but Gary will stop at nothing to get what he wants all in the goal of selling her music. But Gary is also attracted to Terry and tries to get her to change her mind more about him as a person than what he has asked her to do.—Huggo

Plot Keywords

dancing, bikini, skiing, photographer, costume party, rock 'n' roll, ski resort, political campaign, composer, election campaign, beach party, psychotronic film, student, publisher, christmas, senator, songwriter, dance teacher, college life

Short Review

Awfully insipid 60s teen musical comedy in the vein of the Beach Party films, except that this film features a higher than average amount of musical numbers that are actually quite good and much better than your typical Frankie and Annette film. There's also something of a Girl-Power message to the film which is also nice, but the movie is still a bunch of cute college girls going up to a ski resorts and having the usual boy/girl comedy and drama. Three starts for cute girls and musical performances by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto doing "The Girl from Ipanema," Jimmy Smith performing "Comin' Home Johnny" and "The Sermon," The Dave Clark Five performing "Whenever You're Around," and "Thinking of You Baby," and The Animals singing "Blue Feeling" and "Around and Around." Nancy Sinatra was the only actor in the film I'd heard of, but the actually doesn't sing in the film.

Trailer

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