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Palm Springs Weekend
“IT'S WHERE THE BOYS ARE AND THE GIRLS ARE...that swingin' vacation weekend when American youth descends on America's swankiest playground!”
5.0 / 10• 1963• 1h 40m•NR• English
ComedyRomance
Storyline
Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds romance with Bunny, the daughter of Palm Springs harred, stressful police chief. Jim's bumbling roommate, Biff, tries to get Amanda, a tomboyish girl's attention with a so-called love gadget. Meanwhile, Gayle Lewis is a high school senior posing as a wealthy college girl who is pursued by Eric Dean, a wealthy and spoiled college prepie, while Gayle has eyes for a cowboy from Texas, named Stretch. Also Jim and Biff's basketball coach, Campbell, tries to romance Naomi, the owner of the motel where all of the gang is staying at, which is interfered by Naomi's young, trouble-making, brat son who's dubbed, Boom-Boom.
Cast & Crew
Troy Donahue
Jim Munroe
Lead
Connie Stevens
Gayle Lewis - Jane Hoover
Ty Hardin
Doug 'Stretch' Fortune
Stefanie Powers
Bunny Dixon
Robert Conrad
Eric Dean
Andrew Duggan
Police Chief Dixon
Jack Weston
Coach Fred Campbell
Carole Cook
Naomi Yates
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Norman Taurog's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Palm Springs Weekend is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
