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Muscle Beach is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Joseph Strick released in USA on 1 december 1948

Muscle Beach (1948)

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Released in USA 1 december 1948
Length 9minutes
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Rating67% 3.3893153.3893153.3893153.3893153.389315

Muscle Beach is a 1948 short documentary film directed by Joseph Strick and Irving Lerner, showing amateur athletes and bodybuilders at the original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, California. The soundtrack consists of songs sung by Earl Robinson.

This film and The Savage Eye (1959) were restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2008 and premiered in February 2009 at San Francisco Cinematheque.
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