Something Weird A Swingin’ Affair

Here’s something you don’t see every day: a rock ’n’ roll boxing movie! In fact, A Swingin’ Affair opens with a great pre-credits sequence of DICK DALE AND HIS DELTONES playing some great Sixties-style surf music at a college fraternity party. But as they play, one of the pledges, Johnny Kowalski (BILL WELLMAN JR.), slips out of the party, speeds off to a boxing arena, becomes “Kid Gallant“ in the ring and easily knocks out his opponent in the first round, then hurries back to the party just in time to hear