Operation Bikini
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| Directed by | Anthony Carras |
| Produced by |
Samuel Z. Arkoff James H. Nicholson Lou Rusoff |
| Written by | John Tomerlin |
| Starring |
Tab Hunter Frankie Avalon Scott Brady Jim Backus Gary Crosby |
| Music by | Les Baxter |
| Cinematography | Gil Warrenton |
| Edited by |
Anthony Carras Homer Powell |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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Release date
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March 26, 1963 |
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Running time
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77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Operation Bikini also released as The Seafighter is a film released in 1963 by American International Pictures. It was directed by Anthony Carras and starred Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, and Scott Brady.
The casting was aimed to capture a varied audience. While Operation Bikini was nominally a World War II war movie, it shared a number of cast members — Avalon, Jody McCrea, and Eva Six — with American International's Beach Party (soon to become a franchise), and thrown into the mix were character actor Jim Backus, former screen heartthrob Tab Hunter, and Gary Crosby (son of Bing). Avalon even sings in two musical interludes — which were shot in color, despite the rest of the movie's being shot in black and white.
The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander (Brady) is ordered to stop and pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes (Hunter), whose mission is to locate and destroy a U.S. submarine sunken in a lagoon off Bikini Atoll before the Japanese are able to raise it and capture the advanced radar system on board.
The members of the demolitions team include Seaman Joseph Malzone (Avalon), Will Sherman (McCrea), and Ronald Davayo (Aki Aleong), the only member of the team who speaks Japanese. Malzone carries a photo of his girl, which he affixes to the torpedo above his bunk. In two musical (and colorful) dream sequences, Malzone expresses his devotion to "The Girl Back Home".
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