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Don't Make Waves

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Don't Make Waves (1967)

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Turn on! Stay loose! Make out!

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!

When you've got it made "don't make waves" - make love

Wild waves and wilder women ... in a tidal wave of comedy!

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


British director Alexander MacKendrick helmed this farcical romantic comedy set in Southern California. Carlo Cofield (Tony Curtis) is a footloose tourist who meets Laura Califatti (Claudia Cardinale) when she accidentally edges his car off the highway. Laura invites Carlo to her home; he seems interested in her, but discovers she's already involved with swimming pool magnate Rod Prescott (Robert Webber). The next day, Carlo hits the beach and nearly drowns in the ocean, until he's rescued by comely sky diver Malibu (Sharon Tate). Carlo blackmails Rod into giving him a job so he can stay in California and pursue a romance with Malibu, but he soon finds himself torn between her and Laura. Don't Make Waves also features a theme song by The Byrds.

Don't Make Waves is a 1967 American sex farce (with elements of the beach party genre) starring Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Dave Draper and Sharon Tate. Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and is based on the 1959 novel Muscle Beach, by Ira Wallach, who also wrote the screenplay.

Upon its release on June 20 1967, Don't Make Waves received generally mixed reviews. By the time the film was released, the popularity of beach films and films that related to California beach culture had began to wane as had the popularity of Tony Curtis as a matinee idol.[2] In American Prince, his 2009 autobiography, Tony Curtis wrote of making Don't Make Waves, "The plot was utterly ridiculous, but I agreed to appear in the film because I got a percentage of the gross."[4] The film would go on to earn $1.25 million at the box office.[2]

Don't Make Waves has since received more positive comments from reviewers, such as Leonard Maltin who describes it as "a gem", and makes note of the "good direction, funny performance by Sharon Tate and a catchy title song...".[5]

Release Date: June 23, 1967

Distrib: MGM

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