I already wrote comments concerning this fine film, but I had to write another comment to respond to the note on here about Harlan Ellison and his possible connection to Harvey Lembeck's Erich Von Zipper character (who the poster referred to simply as "the biker character"). I don't understand this poster's point; he says it was "wrong" of the producers to ridicule biker culture, but I can't see how it's "wrong" to make fun of anything. The whole point of the biker characters (who, incidentally, appear in all the beach movies) is to poke fun at the individualist "rebel" aesthetic that had dominated the 50s teen culture, and to replace these with mellow early 60s "heroes" like Fabian and Frankie Avalon (as opposed to the more Elvis/Gene Vincent styled Von Zipper). It has absoutely nothing to do with late 60s counterculture, except to make fun of it before the fact. As for Charles Manson and Erich Von Zipper, I suggest that there are no two characters more far apart (besides the fact that one is a fictional character and the other is a real, albeit insane, person).
I don't think the producers of this movie (James Nicholson, primarily) were even aware of who Harlan Ellison was, so I can't see that there's any connection here, and I suggest the person who posted those comments check his medication; might be time for a refill.
I don't think the producers of this movie (James Nicholson, primarily) were even aware of who Harlan Ellison was, so I can't see that there's any connection here, and I suggest the person who posted those comments check his medication; might be time for a refill.