James Darren

The Guns of Navarone -- Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn attempt to infiltrate an impregnable Nazi fortress and destroy two enormous long-range field guns in this 1961 Oscar(r)-winner for Best Special Effects.

Charlton Heston nearly ruins his family with his domineering dictates in this steamy drama set in Hawaii. Heston is a wealthy pineapple plantation owner and a bigoted bully who, despite the fact that he himself has a Chinese mistress, flatly refuses to allow his young sister to marry a good-looking, full-blooded Hawaiian.

Sandra Dee became a model for countless teenagers in the late 1950's when she played Gidget, a sad-faced youngster who doesn't quite measure up to the chesty, bikinied girls on the beach. Her mom's reassurances come true when two surfers start paying Gidget some attention.

Summer's in, surf's up, and the party's in full swing for rich kid Gardner "Ding" Pruitt III (James Darren), who's got his eye on bikini-clad Sandy (Pamela Tiffin) -- until Ding's granddad, "Nifty" Cronin (Robert Middleton), schemes to close the local hangout. With Sandy's guardians and college officials siding up with Cronin, the partiers resort to a little blackmail to turn the tide in their favor.