tiki bar scene in old (or not so old) movie - General Tiki

T thejab Grand Member (1 year) Tradewinds Apartments, Alameda, CA Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2992	T thejab Posted posted on Wed, Jan 3, 2007 1:07 PM WOW! I just saw an amazing movie that I TIVOed (is that a verb?) from the Fox Movie Channel in December called "The Right Approach". It was made in 1961 (a very good year!). Dig this scene: a young bachelor named Horace Wetheridge Tobey III (Robert Casper) picks up carhop Ursula Poe (Juliet Prowse) at the drive-in where she works and takes her to his pad, which is an abandoned Polynesian restaurant called the Hideaway Hut! The place is full of tiki masks, spears, hanging lamps, bamboo, tapa, etc., as well as dozens of caricature portraits from the old restaurant. There's a huge standing Papua New Guinea tiki in front of the place, and a large mask over the front porch. The bachelor lives with his 4 bachelor roommates there, in bedrooms made out of different rooms from the original restaurant! There is a bamboo bar and a phone booth inside as well. The plot wasn't bad. I won't go into it, but there's plenty of goodies to keep things interesting, including a scene in a beatnik jazz club where bachelor Rip (Gary Crosby) plays piano in a jazz combo, and some great dialog, like when the bachelor brings the carhop to his pad she says: "I would have brought my ukulele if I had known where you lived!". There's a funny scene where two decked out girls go into the ladies room at the jazz club to preen. This beatnik chick comes in, sits down in front of the mirror, and proceeds to purposely mess up her hair before she goes back out to the dance floor to shake it with a guy in a beret and goatee. There's a great bit where blond bombshell Martha Hyer comes in soaking wet from a rainstorm. Oooogaahhh! At least half of the movie is shot at the tiki pad! This one is definitely a keeper, as it's not on DVD or video. The only bad thing about it is that it was shot in wide-screen format so the left and right edges are cut off in this version (it's not very noticeable though). The Kirby Stone Four did the theme song, which Dominic Frontiere wrote, and Frankie Vaughan sings in the movie. The movie's tagline is: "The lowdown on bachelor boys - and their search for girls!" Has anyone else seen this tiki movie masterpiece? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055373/ [ Edited by: thejab 2007-01-03 13:09 ]

WOW! I just saw an amazing movie that I TIVOed (is that a verb?) from the Fox Movie Channel in December called "The Right Approach". It was made in 1961 (a very good year!).

Dig this scene: a young bachelor named Horace Wetheridge Tobey III (Robert Casper) picks up carhop Ursula Poe (Juliet Prowse) at the drive-in where she works and takes her to his pad, which is an abandoned Polynesian restaurant called the Hideaway Hut! The place is full of tiki masks, spears, hanging lamps, bamboo, tapa, etc., as well as dozens of caricature portraits from the old restaurant. There's a huge standing Papua New Guinea tiki in front of the place, and a large mask over the front porch. The bachelor lives with his 4 bachelor roommates there, in bedrooms made out of different rooms from the original restaurant! There is a bamboo bar and a phone booth inside as well.

The plot wasn't bad. I won't go into it, but there's plenty of goodies to keep things interesting, including a scene in a beatnik jazz club where bachelor Rip (Gary Crosby) plays piano in a jazz combo, and some great dialog, like when the bachelor brings the carhop to his pad she says: "I would have brought my ukulele if I had known where you lived!".

There's a funny scene where two decked out girls go into the ladies room at the jazz club to preen. This beatnik chick comes in, sits down in front of the mirror, and proceeds to purposely mess up her hair before she goes back out to the dance floor to shake it with a guy in a beret and goatee.

There's a great bit where blond bombshell Martha Hyer comes in soaking wet from a rainstorm. Oooogaahhh!

At least half of the movie is shot at the tiki pad!

This one is definitely a keeper, as it's not on DVD or video. The only bad thing about it is that it was shot in wide-screen format so the left and right edges are cut off in this version (it's not very noticeable though).

The Kirby Stone Four did the theme song, which Dominic Frontiere wrote, and Frankie Vaughan sings in the movie. The movie's tagline is: "The lowdown on bachelor boys - and their search for girls!"

Has anyone else seen this tiki movie masterpiece?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055373/

[ Edited by: thejab 2007-01-03 13:09 ]

Post #276317 by thejab on Wed, Jan 3, 2007 1:07 PM