Don't Make Waves (1967)

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 »

Director:

Alexander Mackendrick

Writers:

George Kirgo, Maurice Richlin,

Stars:

Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tony Curtis	...	Carlo Cofield
Claudia Cardinale	...	Laura Califatti
Robert Webber	...	Rod Prescott
Joanna Barnes	...	Diane Prescott
Sharon Tate	...	Malibu
David Draper	...	Harry Hollard
Mort Sahl	...	Sam Lingonberry
Dub Taylor	...	Electrician
Ann Elder	...	Millie Gunder
Chester Yorton	...	Ted Gunder
Reg Lewis	...	Monster
Marc London	...	Fred Barker
Douglas Henderson	...	Henderson
Sarah Selby	...	Ethyl
Mary Grace Canfield	...	Seamstress

Storyline

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.

---

Plot Keywords:

beach | skydiver | dog | malibu | surfboard | 

---

Taglines:

What the Italians do with a bed... the Americans do with a beach!

---

Genres:

Comedy

---

Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 September 1967 (Finland)

Also Known As:

Comment réussir en amour sans se fatiguer?

Filming Locations:

Malibu, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Filmways Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

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.

---

Goofs

When Carlo is trying to sell a pool to the Backus', Henny changes positions between shots from being the closest person to the house to being the furthest away.

---

Quotes

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.

---

Connections

Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 4 (1997)

---

Soundtracks

"Don't Make Waves"
Written by Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman
Performed by The Byrds

User Reviews

Absolutely superb sixties comedy

This is one of my favorite movies about Los Angeles. It has everything.

Gorgeous locations on the beach, stunningly beautiful actors, a brilliant and witty script full of hilarious, exageratted incidents which are nevertheless typical of LA.

It is not only funny but engaging, the plot is interesting. It was even better the second time I saw it on the big screen, where it is best seen.

I was totally captivated by this film.

I find this film much wittier and funnier, for example, than "Some Like It Hot", also with Curtis, and I find Sharon Tate much sexier than Monroe in that film.

The plot is a bit crazy but compeletely believable and consistent with itself and reality; as a comedy it falls in the exagerrated or surrealistic category, only slightly dark because of the various difficulties that beset the hero.

Above all it is a brilliant comment on Los Angeles of the sixties and is still valid in the 2000's. An overlooked gem, a great cast, which may work best for those who have lived in LA.

Another film like this, with good LA locations, less comedy more suspense, is "Into the Night".