trailer for Beach Girls and the Monster ('65) with Jon Hall and the Watusi Dancing Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnlL4yKrD2s

Don't forget Fellini. Every one of his films is a beach movie (including my favorite Fellini film, The White Sheik.

Yeah, but they pass my not-too-many blondes test.

Does it have to be beach-less? What about Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows, whose final and utterly memorable scene is of the young hero freeze-framed on a beach.
Or maybe Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice, almost all of which takes place at a beach resort. Or Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, in which the Knight and his pal Death hang out, playing chess by the sea ( on a beach.)
Sorry, just bein' a smart-a**. Just messin' with you, Andy, baby.

I am bewildered by the number of beach/surfing movies being aired by tcm this week. I know they are campy tongue in cheek sometimes funny films but are they really worth the amount of air time that tcm is devoting to them? This is in the same week that the Titanic sinking reaches it's centennial mark and only one film being offered on the schedule about it (A Night to Remember)

I don't really care if they show all four (or all forty) Titanic movies (though I wish they'd shown the Stanwyck version), but I completely agree with your larger point about the deluge of April "Spring Break" films. Between these gobs of goo and all those Doris Day movies, it's like being trapped for the better part of a month in Frankie Avalon's fraternity house, with Connie Francis posted at the front door, passing out chastity belts to all the arriving dates. The overdose of wholesomeness is positively suffocating.

As a constructive compromise, I'd propose a deal where we get one vintage foreign film for every movie that's shot on a beach and doesn't involve at least two or three murders and at least 50% non-blonde actors. Is that really too much to ask?

My point exactly. There are more interesting subjects to focus on then pop culture.

I am bewildered by the number of beach/surfing movies being aired by tcm this week. I know they are campy tongue in cheek sometimes funny films but are they really worth the amount of air time that tcm is devoting to them? This is in the same week that the Titanic sinking reaches it's centennial mark and only one film being offered on the schedule about it (A Night to Remember)

I personally want to predominantly see interesting serious films with a sprinkling of the fluff stuff. There's still plenty of substance to be found on tcm but in this example I think something is lacking in programming priorities.