Palm Springs Weekend (1963)

  • NR
  • 11/05/1963 (US)
  • Comedy, Romance
  • 1h 40m

IT'S WHERE THE BOYS ARE AND THE GIRLS ARE...that swingin' vacation weekend when American youth descends on America's swankiest playground!

Overview

Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds romance with Bunny, the daughter of Palm Springs harred, stressful police chief. Jim's bumbling roommate, Biff, tries to get Amanda, a tomboyish girl's attention with a so-called love gadget. Meanwhile, Gayle Lewis is a high school senior posing as a wealthy college girl who is pursued by Eric Dean, a wealthy and spoiled college prepie, while Gayle has eyes for a cowboy from Texas, named Stretch. Also Jim and Biff's basketball coach, Campbell, tries to romance Naomi, the owner of the motel where all of the gang is staying at, which is interfered by Naomi's young, trouble-making, brat son who's dubbed, Boom-Boom.

Norman Taurog

Director

Earl Hamner, Jr.

Screenplay

Cast

Troy Donahue's headshot

Troy Donahue

Jim Munroe
Connie Stevens's headshot

Connie Stevens

Gayle Lewis - Jane Hoover
Ty Hardin's headshot

Ty Hardin

Doug 'Stretch' Fortune
Stefanie Powers's headshot

Stefanie Powers

Bunny Dixon
Robert Conrad's headshot

Robert Conrad

Eric Dean
Andrew Duggan's headshot

Andrew Duggan

Police Chief Dixon
Jack Weston's headshot

Jack Weston

Coach Fred Campbell
Carole Cook's headshot

Carole Cook

Naomi Yates

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