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Don't Make Waves

  • 19671967
  • 1h 37m
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5.8/10
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Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, and Sharon Tate in Don't Make Waves (1967)
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  • Comedy
Carlo goes on a vacation to Southern California where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture while getting entangled in two beach-side romances.Carlo goes on a vacation to Southern California where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture while getting entangled in two beach-side romances.Carlo goes on a vacation to Southern California where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture while getting entangled in two beach-side romances.
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
1.7K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
1,058
12,516
  • Director
    • Alexander Mackendrick
  • Writers
    • Ira Wallach(screenplay)
    • George Kirgo(screenplay)
    • Maurice Richlin(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Tony Curtis
    • Claudia Cardinale
    • Robert Webber
Top credits
  • Director
    • Alexander Mackendrick
  • Writers
    • Ira Wallach(screenplay)
    • George Kirgo(screenplay)
    • Maurice Richlin(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Tony Curtis
    • Claudia Cardinale
    • Robert Webber
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 21User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
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  • Videos1

    Don't Make Waves
    Trailer 2:48
    Don't Make Waves

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    Sharon Tate and David Draper in Don't Make Waves (1967)
    Don't Make Waves (1967)
    Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, and Sharon Tate in Don't Make Waves (1967)
    Don't Make Waves (1967)
    Claudia Cardinale in Don't Make Waves (1967)
    Claudia Cardinale, David Draper, and Ann Elder in Don't Make Waves (1967)
    Tony Curtis and Claudia Cardinale in Don't Make Waves (1967)
    Sharon Tate in Don't Make Waves (1967)
    Sharon Tate in Don't Make Waves (1967)
    Tony Curtis and David Draper in Don't Make Waves (1967)
    Sharon Tate in Don't Make Waves (1967)
    Sharon Tate in Don't Make Waves (1967)

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    Tony Curtis
    Tony Curtis
    • Carlo Cofield
    Claudia Cardinale
    Claudia Cardinale
    • Laura Califatti
    Robert Webber
    Robert Webber
    • Rod Prescott
    Joanna Barnes
    Joanna Barnes
    • Diane Prescott
    Sharon Tate
    Sharon Tate
    • Malibu
    David Draper
    David Draper
    • Harry Hollard
    Mort Sahl
    Mort Sahl
    • Sam Lingonberry
    Dub Taylor
    Dub Taylor
    • Electrician
    Ann Elder
    Ann Elder
    • Millie Gunder
    Chester Yorton
    • Ted Gunder
    Reg Lewis
    Reg Lewis
    • Monster
    Marc London
    Marc London
    • Fred Barker
    Douglas Henderson
    • Henderson
    Sarah Selby
    Sarah Selby
    • Ethyl
    Mary Grace Canfield
    Mary Grace Canfield
    • Seamstress
    Julie Payne
    Julie Payne
    • Helen
    Breena Howard
    • Myrna
    • (as Holly Haze)
    Edgar Bergen
    Edgar Bergen
    • Madame Lavinia
    • Director
      • Alexander Mackendrick
    • Writers
      • Ira Wallach(screenplay) (novel "Muscle Beach")
      • George Kirgo(screenplay)
      • Maurice Richlin(adaptation)
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    • Trivia
      Sharon Tate's character of Malibu inspired the Malibu Barbie doll.
    • Goofs
      At the start of the film, as Carlo's driverless Volkswagen is rolling down the hill, a darkly-painted cardboard box with viewing holes cut in it can be seen; this is meant to hide the stunt driver of the runaway car.
    • Quotes

      Rod Prescott: [to Laura] How many times have I told you not to send these idiotic letters to my house? Huh? What would happen if my wife had got them? If Diane had read that letter it'd be 86 for you and me, baby.

    • Crazy credits
      Amateur Gymnasts appearing in this production are doing so by special permission of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States or of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
    • Connections
      Featured in Parenthood: Pilot (1990)
    • Soundtracks
      Don't Make Waves
      Written by Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman

      Performed by The Byrds

    User reviews21

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    Top review
    6/10
    DON’T MAKE WAVES (Alexander Mackendrick, 1967) **1/2
    This is one of a multitude of sex comedies Tony Curtis starred in around this time in his career; incidentally, I had seen about half of it some years back (also on Italian TV) but had to abort the viewing due to a bad reception!

    Anyway, if the film is at all remembered today, it is primarily for two reasons: it not only marked the cinematic swan song of a great director, but was also the official Hollywood introduction of the beguiling but ill-fated Sharon Tate. Two more (if lesser) claims to fame should be the undeniably funny Chaplinesque ‘house-teetering-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff’ climax and the fact that leading rock band The Byrds perform the film’s rather charmingly light title tune.

    Patchy and somewhat hesitant overall, it is nonetheless engaging and occasionally delightful; the satirical barbs aimed at L.A.’s muscle beach mentality (especially David Draper, the amiably moronic blonde hulk who is Tate’s boyfriend), the then-current astrological fad and businessmen indulging in extramarital activities often hit the target – even if with a much blunter edge than in Mackendrick’s previous film with Curtis, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957). Two other lively highlights of the film are the initial ‘meeting cute’ between Curtis and leading lady Claudia Cardinale (in which, as he tells her himself, she inadvertently manages to ruin his whole life in 30 seconds flat!) and the potentially disastrous sky-diving stunt performed by Tate and (unexpectedly) Curtis, which ends with both of them landing in his newly-inaugurated pool.

    The film does benefit from a workmanlike cast: Curtis is in good form as an opportunistic young man who, while being compulsively pursued by the accident-prone Cardinale, becomes hopelessly infatuated with luscious, free-spirited beach girl Sharon Tate (her effortlessly sensual slow-motion exercises on the beach early in the film are quite disturbing to watch now when one realizes that she would die so horribly in less than two years’ time); Robert Webber is a swimming pool company executive driven to his wits’ end by lover Cardinale and the blackmailing schemes of Curtis, who soon shows his salesmanship skills by selling a pool to Jim “Mr. Magoo” Backus (playing himself) and a celebrity fortune-teller with the unlikely name of Madame Lavinia (played by famed ventriloquist Edgar Bergen).

    While it is undoubtedly Mackendrick’s least (i.e. most inconsequential) film – and could well have been the reason why he left the profession and went into teaching – it’s a tribute to his mostly unsung genius that the film is as enjoyable as it is despite the evident flaws.
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    • Release date
      • September 15, 1967 (Finland)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Die nackten Tatsachen
    • Filming locations
      • Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
    • Production companies
      • Filmways Pictures
      • Reynard Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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