Very colorful 1960 movie about the spring break migration to Fort Lauderdale that occurred annually during the 1950s and 1960s. The opening credits has beautiful scenery of the beach and the intracoastal.waterway.
Imagine watching this movie when you are 8 years old thinking this will be how life is when you reach adulthood, being excited about that, and then when you get to that age, it's 1972 - a totally different world.
This movie is my favorite. Saw it on TCM. Not only innocence but values respect for elders less or no divorce cases. 60's was the time people globally travelled no inflation no pollution no social or population growth issues great time for movies and music. 70s 80s and 90s were great. Fast forward 21st century life sucks! the new generation is spoilt no values no respect for people these days. Wicked people everywhere globally. Very good ones left in this world. Everyone is wired and its a techno jungle out there competition online social media venomous comments terrorism Pandemic rise of China. If I had the time machine of HG Wells I would go back in time to the 50s and 60s watch Elvis singing to women spend some time in America holidaying partying and come back to the present times sadly then go back again if mood be LOL. Greetings from India.
What great memories of the Florida waterway canals and homes of this time, preserved in the opening credits of this film. I remember how things were; makes me almost sad thinking its gone now. No one can sing like Connie!
Starring Dolores Hart! Miss Hart left Hollywood to enter a Benedictine Monestery as a Catholic nun. She made films with Elvis Presley. Elvis gave his first kiss on film to Miss Hart. In an interview many years later she relates that both she and Elvis blushed uncontrollably; the director had the blushes covered with make-up. Dolores was also engaged to a successful business man; she later told him her decision to enter the convent. He did not take it as a rejection of himself. He never married!
keri caye I think about WTBA a lot too . I was about 18 when film opened @ theaters, Going to beaches at Easter was in vogue for youth during magic early 60s
I love you his beautiful movie in 1960 I was 10 I was born in 1951 now if it was before June I was still 9 if it was after June 30th,I just turned 10. Wow I love the 50's &60's I spent most ofy kid years outside with my (5) five brothers. I was the only girl 😋 had a great time thanks Rosie.
I was like 11 years old and my Mom made me get into one of the scenes as an extra on the beach. I remember the headline on the newspaper my Dad was reading one morning, it simply said in bold letters,..."They're Here."
I agree! I remember the late 60's early 70's visiting in Florida as a kid/teen; quaint and fun before it became overbuilt and crowded...this movie makes me nostalgic for that time...especially seeing the canal waterways with modest homes, pools, boats, recreational scenes in the opening credits to the voice of Connie Francis...ahh, those were the days! Young adults are still visiting vacay spots like this during spring break, not just back then.
Well the beach is still there! Just narrower. Elbo Room still there, no longer serving food,. Wreck Bar also there and since 2007 has brought back the mermaid show! Bahia Mar has changed the most, and is about to get redeveloped again. The building across from the Elbo is gone; it's now a park.
kimo abitz yup the good ol days were black people were getting lynched, murdered for no reason, couldn't vote, treated like a 2nd class citizen in their own country, the country they were born in & has been here for generations....ahh the good days man =)
Show 'em the opening credits on T.V. and experience a supercharged tourist boom that ain't let up yet. Before Florida Man, before The Midnight Cowboy, before Miami Vice, this was how folks up north became intoxicated with Florida.
@KYKIN89 Thanks for the tip! I shall keep an eye out. I do hope the documentary is well done. I have seen Rev Mother Dolores interviewed a couple of times. Last report, she is still very much alive and alert in the same old convent which is now very much in need of repairs and building code updates. Thanks again. A retired Catholic priest in Canada. P.S. I was in the seminary until 1965; so I missed all the news in those days.
I had heard that Frank Gorshin the Riddler was in this movie but IDK ( I Didnt Know) he was cause I nrver seen the movie now I know and knowing's half the battle.
The film has been employed to demonstrate that there has been no "sea rise" here in Ft. Lauderdale. The film was shot in 1959 (released in 1960) establishes beach widths, canal and Intracoastal levels. It has been used by scientists to establish that the sea/canal levels in 2016 are the same as in 1959. The film was shot by a crew with no agenda. The docks and sea walls here demonstrate that there has been no rise in these parts for at least the last 58 years. Go look it up.
@@Dallas_K plenty of sea rise in Miami. I live in Ft. Lauderdale in a hi rise built over 40 years ago. Every building gets a 40 year inspection by the county. Had ours last year. The cars in the underground garage need not be moved in a hurricane. We live 200 ft from the ocean. First floor is 10 ft above sea level. Our pool is on the beach as is our club. They have been flooded only during Cat 4 hurricanes.... three times in the last 15 years. Damage? They eliminated carpeting in the weight rooms.
Wait! I thought the seas are supposed to be rising. So how is it that Ft. Lauderdale beach in the almost 60 years since this opening sequence was shot is still just as wide now as it was then? Sorry "Climate Change" scientists but the ocean is NOT rising up over the Elbo Room.
you must have missed when we have what are called "King Tides" the last few years here in South Florida....and the beach is not that wide but about only 50% of what it was wide when I was a kid going there in the mid to late 60's. I was born & raised here in Miami, and my mom preferred to go to the beach in Ft Lauderdale over Crandon on Key Biscayne. So we went where she wanted to go
When I was in Gunnison Colorado at Western State college Yvette Mimieux and I were on the same plane...She was on her way to Crested Butte Ski resort to appear in the straight to video movie called Snow Beast...She gave me a nasty sneer and then just walked away... Her career was kaput at that point and I could tell how sad and used up she felt..The movie business can be ruthless and cruel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!