Barbara Nichols, Chill Wills, Connie Francis

The movie that put the Break into Spring, Where the Boys Are inspired thousands of college kids to seek sun, surf, and even s-e-x on the beaches of Florida. A bevy of co-eds (including foxy Yve...( read more  read more... )tte Mimieux and delightful Paula Prentiss, in her film debut) make for Fort Lauderdale, finding fun but also quite a bit of heavy-breathing drama. It's a little like a dressier, glossed-up version of the Problems with Today's Youth movies that were filling up the drive-ins of the era. The movie's actually pretty frank for 1960, although these days the lightweight stuff with Prentiss and Jim Hutton holds up best. There's also Connie Francis, who plays one of the college girls and croons the great title tune (which belongs on anybody's mix tape of classic teen-beach music). The film was remade, with vague Orwellian overtones, as Where the Boys Are 84, a truly dismal effort. --Robert Horton

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Unrated, 99 min.

Directed by: Henry Levin

Release Date: December 28, 1960

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DVD Release Date: January 6, 2004

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  • July 26, 2009
    GOOD MOVIE FOR ALL TEENS TO WATCH BEFORE GOING ON FIRST 'SPRING BREAK' WITH THIER FRIENDS...
  • June 25, 2009
    You know a movie's old when the boys in question include George Hamilton and Frank Gorshin lol. Like Gidget his early surf film was directly aimed at teenage girls so even though it's entertaining there's alot of silly melodrama. I will admit i was a little shocked by the sexual ...( read more)innuendo even though it's wrapped in 50's values; boys are only interested in one thing (sex) and girls are interested in two (marriage and babies).
  • June 11, 2009
    I could watch again and again. How about " GIGIT "
  • February 7, 2009
    why is Connie not included in the cast?
  • January 5, 2009
    "I'm not prudish, I just don't believe in getting smashed."

    these were terrible examples of women. Girls really. But in such a way that it was funny. Everyone's values seemed to be completely sexist. On both sides. Does that mean the film wasn't nice to watch?
    not at all. I'm d...( read more)efinitely going to have to see it again though.
  • August 22, 2008
    GOOD Old Movie also with "Follow the Boys" was a Good Movie too..
  • August 22, 2008
    Excellant Older Movie, Cute!
  • December 26, 2007
    Very bold, considering the time it wasd made. Paula Prentiss was my Amazon hero (for I know what it is to be a tall woman) and I loved her romance with Hutton.

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