Sergeant Deadhead

Sergeant Deadhead (1965)
AIP Production #6510/6553 

Jeff and Cheryl perform an interstellar experiment to determine if two Frankie Avalons are better than one in Sergeant Deadhead.

Directed by Norman Taurog
Written by Louis M. Heyward
Produced by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff 

Starring:
Frankie Avalon as Sergeant O. K. Deadhead/Sergeant Donovan
Deborah Walley as Airman Lucy Turner
Cesar Romero as Admiral Stoneham
Fred Clark as Gen. Rufus Fogg
Gale Gordon as Captain Weiskopf
Harvey Lembeck as Private McEvoy
John Ashley as Private Filroy
Buster Keaton as Private Blinken
Reginald Gardiner as Lieutenant Commander Talbott
Eve Arden as Lieutenant Kinsey
Pat Buttram as The President
Donna Loren as Susan 

Produced by Alta Vista Productions and released under American International Pictures. Find this movie streaming on Amazon Prime, MGM+ or on Spectrum TV.

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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)