Don't Make Waves

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

Sep 15 1967 Approved 1h 37m
Comedy

Carlo Cofield vacations to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture, getting entangled in two beachside romances.

Plot

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

Ira Wallach, George Kirgo, Maurice Richlin

Directed by

Alexander Mackendrick

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Filmways Pictures

Languages

Italiano, English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
2,024
Average Rating
5.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA