Ski Party (1965)

Over a long Friday night to Saturday morning I started a number of films with the intention of falling a sleep to them. At first I succeed briefly with 'Thank God It's Friday' (1978), a movie about a group of people at a disco which was essentially a theatrical record promotion. Leonard Maltin called the movie 'perhaps the worst film to ever win some kind of Academy Award', in this case for the song 'Last Dance' sung by Donna Summer in her film debut, it would prove to be her only film role. Then the Roger Corman produced female gladiator film 'The Arena' (1974) staring Pam Greir, even it couldn't keep my attention. But 'Ski Party' a 1965 Frankie Avalon vehicle that transports that standard beach party story line to the slopes, and contains poorly explained musical cameos by Leslie Gore and James Brown, well that I could sit through. 

Ski party stars Frankie Avalon and Dwyane Hickman who play college roommates (despite being too old) who can't seem to have any success with college girls. So they decide to follow big man on campus Freddie (Aron Kincaid) up on a sky vacation to the Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains. While there they do the 'Some Like it Hot' schtik and pretend to be female English exchange students to learn directly from women what they like in men. It's stupid, but somehow its watchable and amusing as an artifact, when we think of 60's youths we tend to think of the counter culture, but lame schlock like this was popular with a lot of young people. **