Gidget goes Communist Chinese
B-movie producer/director William Castle was famous for luring audiences with gimmicks. In "The Tingler" staring Vincent Price, theatre seats were fitted with vibrating devices to "tingle" the audience; in "13 Ghosts" staring Donald Woods and Rosemary DeCamp, special viewers were needed to see the ghosts -- when Woods donned his special glasses, you had to put on yours. The gimmick in "13 Frightened Girls" is the girls themselves. An international talent search was conducted, or so the press release said, to find the most beautiful teenage girls from around the globe. Lovely, they were; talented, not so much. But it's a fun flick, nonetheless.
"Girls" opens at Miss Pittford's Academy for Young Ladies -- a Swiss boarding school that caters to the daughters of diplomats. The girls are on their way to London for a holiday at their various embassies. Candace/Candy Hull (Kathy Dunn), daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to England, is the star of this movie about a teenage...
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