Two years into Frankie and Annette’s Beach Party series, emboldened by the five installments behind them, American International Pictures tried a variation on the movies’ profitable formula: Ski Party.
 

 
Frankie is now in college, where he and his roommate (Dwayne Hickman, TV’s Dobie Gillis) are studying a book called Fun Without Sex in a class taught by Annette (in a cameo appearance). Desperate for the love of babes, the pair head to the slopes for vacation; there, they dress as women so they can take easier ski lessons and get closer to the bikini-clad coeds. Yes, bikini-clad.

There is also a James Joyce joke:

CRAIG: What do you think of Finnegans Wake?

BARB: I didn’t even know he was sick!

Okay, it’s barely enough to keep the mind alive, but the whole reason this movie exists is so James Brown and the Famous Flames can chew it up and spit it out in their three-and-a-half minutes on screen. I suspect this is the only time Brown sang “I Feel Good” in a Christmas sweater, and it’s certainly the only place you can see him, the Flames and three St. Bernards glide into a ski lodge. Pain addicts who enjoy the taste of tears can watch the full movie (minus the audio of Brown’s performance) here, but for everyone else, James Brown and the Famous Flames’ showstopping performance is isolated below.