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Don't Make Waves (1967)

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New York tourist Tony Curtis falls asleep on a Southern California beach on his first night in the West and wakes up to The New Phantasmagoria--catamarans, surfers (including a dog), ... See full summary »

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Carlo Cofield
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Laura Califatti
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Rod Prescott
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Diane Prescott
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Malibu
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Harry Hollard
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Sam Lingonberry
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Electrician
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Millie Gunder
Chester Yorton ...
Ted Gunder
Reg Lewis ...
Monster
Marc London ...
Fred Barker
Douglas Henderson ...
Henderson
Sarah Selby ...
Ethyl
Mary Grace Canfield ...
Seamstress
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New York tourist Tony Curtis falls asleep on a Southern California beach on his first night in the West and wakes up to The New Phantasmagoria--catamarans, surfers (including a dog), bodybuilders, acrobats, motorcycle chicken races, a nut fishing in the shallows . . . and Sharon Tate as a skydiver named Malibu who gives Curtis the rapture of artificial respiration when he is conked on the head by a flying surfboard. This is the '60s American Dream: youth and beauty and money and sex in Southern California. Go west, all men. Written by alfiehitchie

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beach | skydiver | dog | malibu | surfboard | See more »

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Filmed in the way-way-way out West. In the land of glutes and pegs where the boys and girls are really surfing it up! See more »

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15 September 1967 (Finland)  »

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Comment rĂ©ussir en amour sans se fatiguer?  »

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Sharon Tate told her Roman Polanski that the happy atmosphere on this film was marred when a young uncredited stuntman drowned after parachuting into the Pacific Ocean. See more »

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Early in the film when Claudia Cardinale invites Tony over to her apt, he is seen sitting in a chair on her porch clearly holding an unlit cigar. The camera cuts away to Claudia inside the apt who then comes out onto the porch -there is no cigar in Tony's hand. Claudia is holding a cigar box which she offers to Tony - he then picks out a cigar. See more »

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Carlo Cofield: Look, all great salesmen are nothing more than just a uh - a collection of personality defects: the uh morality of a sieve, the... charm of a schizophrenic, the sensitivity of a rhino, and the uh - the scruples of a blackmailer.
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Referenced in All Eyes on Sharon Tate (1967) See more »

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"Don't Make Waves"
Written by Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman
Performed by The Byrds
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Weather Report......a tsunami set to strike Malibu.
14 April 2006 | by (Staten Island, New York) – See all my reviews

Perfect posture and great bodies dominate in this oddball Tony Curtis comedy. Just about everyone in these reels of celluloid has a superb physique: Claudia Cardinale, Sharon Tate, and even the muscle men pumping iron on the beach. Hard to believe fact: this movie was based on a novel! Some of the bloated beach bums must have stumbled in from a "method" acting class. The leader savors every line of dialog as if it was Milton or Shakespeare. Weird. The setting is radiant to the eye. The special effects people deserve a gold metal for delivering some of the most realistic shots, up to that time, of the ground cracking open and an upscale villa sliding and tumbling down a steep embankment and into the surf. Impressive. It's sad to see Sharon Tate--so young and pretty--just three years before the Manson Gang got their hands on her. Miss Tate's character is skilled in many physical pursuits: trampoline and skydiving included. In one improbable scene, she saves Tony Curtis, James Bond-like, by strapping herself to the free-falling con-man. Miss Cardinale has the curves to match her rival, but she is straddled with shrill dialog and a cranky demeanor. Jim Backus plays himself and performs his "Mister Magoo" routine. I think the movie works so well because it perfectly captures the Southern California scene at a time when many things were changing--and not always for the best. The mid-sixties was the last gasp of a more innocent time and cinema. View after midnight--it rocks.


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