Where The Boys Are

This is about spring break in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and the crazy relationships and situations that can happen.

It is narrated in the beginning to set the scene and tell you what is about to happen and what you are about to watch.

It stars Connie Francis who sings the title song and a few other songs during the movie. Also stars Dolores Hart, Yvette Mimieux, Barbara Nichols, George Hamilton (before his tan!), Chill Wills as the chief of police, Frank Gorshin (who played The Riddler in the old Batman tv series) as a kooky jazz player that ends up falling for Connie Francis' character, although you don't get to see much of that unfortunately as I think that could have been really funny to have expanded on that.
Also has Jim Hutton (Timothy Hutton's father) and Paula Prentiss who both were paired together in a few other movies. 

This 1960 movie starts out showing a view of Fort Lauderdale and then flashes you back to a midwestern all girl college showing a  blizzard of snow! Not unlike what seems to be happening as of late at what normally would have been spring break time. 

One girl (Dolores Hart) is outspoken about sex and shocking the old fashioned teachings in what seems like during an interpersonal relationship class that tiptoes around about how young girls and boys should act or not act, especially during spring break or when kept away from the opposite sex. The class was very proper and old fashioned and Hart's character calls it right out.

The four girlfriends take a road trip down to Ft. Lauderdale for spring break and while driving down, they spot a guy on the side of the road all sad with a sign hitchhiking to FL and they pick him up!

There are a lot of character actors who appear in this movie that have been in quite a few other movies.

Hotel concierge, waiter...see if you can spot them!

The original four let two more girls stay with them who can’t afford the room rate as they try to save money to afford to stay there and the room fills up with other girls along the way during the course of the movie.

Chill Wills is the chief of police which is just comical in of itself. He gives a speech that is just funny to prep the police officers for the spring break kids and the craziness that ensues.

 The hitchhiker (Jim Hutton) asks if the one girl (Paula Prentiss) is a "good girl" and when she says yes, he is disappointed as he is looking to have sex of course. 

The whole movie is about how each girl meets a guy and the different type of situations that can occur. Some of this was so familiar to me when I was in tech school in the Air Force and can imagine spring break is a lot like this even today.

Although the clothes and styles and cars have changed, not to mention prices, but the situations and relationships are still pretty much the same of what you can encounter. 

There is a situation in this movie that is downplayed a bit as far as the consequences go. Definitely more adult and not really a movie for kids at all.  You don't really see anything sexual, but it leaves it up to your mind to know what happened to the one girl. This shows what the mindset was back in 1960 as well when it comes to this sort of thing. 

It was a funny movie until the end and it definitely took a very downward turn and left you feeling sad. A sadness that remained and overshadowed the nice situations and relationships of the others. It's worth seeing if only for the great character actors and Frank Gorshin is hysterical and just kooky as he can be.