Von Zipper, overweight and relatively ?old? (Lembeck was 40 when Beach Party filmed) - two big no-no's in the teen world - represented the leather-clad punks from the early 1950s who never outgrew their ?rebellions without a cause,? an ...
Film is also of interest for some up-and-coming actors who blend seemlessly into the fabric of the film(Grace Kelly, Jeffrey Hunter, Ossie Davis, Harvey Lembeck). ?Fourteen Hours? definitely rates as an unqualified success. ...
The actor Harvey Lembeck is famous for playing the role of Eric Von Zipper in the old Beach Party movies, famously called the world's oldest juvenile delinquent. He was a slapstick character who always spoke in a silly Brooklyn accent even though he was leading ... And we all started talking about beaches and movies and vacations and surfing and California and just about any other topic we could derive from beach party movies. Their names were Shelby, Shelly and Jay-jay. ...
