California Tiki Archives

We discuss this key film with an eye towards Tiki Culture. Listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/californiatiki/flannel_rev.mp3 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZabDd2BCsVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZabDd2BCs) Check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6hKvijIH8M California Tiki Podcast Links Check out the California Tiki book. Join us over on Facebook to chime in. The show is hosted here[...]

Amazing. Listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/californiatiki/cobra_woman_rev.mp3 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMW93AOuGIVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Cobra Woman (1944) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMW93AOuGI) Check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydhyoYHvXXgVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Cobra Woman Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydhyoYHvXXg) California Tiki Podcast Links Check out the California Tiki book. Join us over on Facebook to chime in. The show is hosted here[...]

That should work out for him, since the movie takers place in the South Pacific and Voodoo is a Haitian concept, but don't get distracted by sense: this is an expedition movie, complete with rope bridges, man-eating plants, voodoo dolls, restless "natives", and baffling casting choices. Voodoo Island (1957) starring Boris Karloff is a prime example of American[...]

But at the center of the film is Robert Cummings, who plays a scientist yearning for a simpler life — a key element of Tiki. Listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/californiatiki/beach_party_rev.mp3 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WbuQ83-lr4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Beach Party (1963) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WbuQ83-lr4) Check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkhGmZPJIHYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Beach Party (1963) Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkhGmZPJIHY) California Tiki[...]