a_chinn Okay middle aged version of a Beach Party film has tourist Tony Curtis visiting California and run off the road by Claudia Cardinale, who then takes him back to her place, where a French style bedroom farce ensures. These kooky 20 and 30 somethings encounter crazy Californian surfers, bodybuilders, skydivers, and other assorted kooks. The film is never boring, but it's also never all that funny or clever either. One of the positives for the film is a supporting role by Sharon Tate, who's gorgeous and again had a terrific screen presence, reminding us of of what a loss the world had with her murder. Overall, if you want a lightweight comedy to the pass the time (which you'll completely forget about once it's over), you could do worse than "Don't Make Waves."

bkoganbing My first thought after seeing Don't Make Waves is that a lot of people, a lot of well to do people who bought beachfront homes the way Tony Curtis does and then see them lost to mudslides the way his is in the climax might have not seen the humor in all that. The $25,000.00 that Mort Sahl gets from Curtis for the home is nothing compared to what their delicate value is today. In fact Sahl is the smartest one in Don't Make Waves.Tony Curtis is a solitary tourist in southern California who through a series of wild circumstances loses his car and all his clothes and money and who Claudia Cardinale takes in as a poor vagabond.Cardinale is the kept mistress of Robert Webber who is playing his usual two timing rat villain that he does in serious and comic parts. But Curtis inadvertently picks up a piece of information that allows him to blackmail Webber into a job with his swimming pool company. Webber's telling a lot of tales to both Cardinale and wife Joanna Barnes who controls the pursestrings for him and the company.Curtis turns out to be an innovative and aggressive swimming pool salesman and life on the beach is great for him after he buys Sahl's place. His first meeting with Sharon Tate involves mouth to mouth resuscitation. If he can get passed her bodybuilder boyfriend David Draper. Draper is nice, but not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He's also the last word in biceps, 24 inch pythons as Hulk Hogan would put it.Don't Make Waves had Sharon Tate given 'and introducing' billing. Who could have predicted her tragic end?I was also not pleased with the resolution regarding Webber and Barnes. Today's feminists, even the next decade's feminists would be up in arms over it.Still Don't Make Waves has some good moments in it that will please Tony Curtis fans.

Ripshin Tony Curtis, Edgar Bergen, Sharon Tate????? While the first thirty minutes of this film are perhaps promising, the plot quickly becomes insanely silly.Perhaps the pedestrian direction of this film is predetermined by the fact that Filmways was the production company. One would expect no less from the makers of numerous mindless sitcoms of the 60s.Slow motion scenes of Sharon Tate bouncing about, and numerous shots of various California beefcake bodybuilders strutting their stuff, are interspersed with ridiculous, unrelated scenes of supposed comedy.The "introducing Sharon Tate" credit is dubious, considering she "debued" in FOUR films the same year, including "Valley of the Dolls." An experience to be missed.

moonspinner55 A very flaky comedy, a perplexing mix of moods involving Southern California hustler Tony Curtis with an accident prone actress, her married lover, and an assortment of beach bums and bunnies. A curiously lackadaisical pace, an almost dream-like non-focus, and the blithe, throwaway performances don't especially give the proceedings an edge, but they do help the movie stand out from other films in this genre. But what genre is it exactly? It isn't a laugh-out loud comedy, it isn't a character study, it isn't brainless but neither is it particularly witty. Just an occasional big laugh, and it certainly looks good. Sharon Tate gets an "introducing" credit, just as she did on "Eye Of The Devil" released the year before. Her role as "Malibu" is utterly undemanding, but still it's nice to see her having fun. ** from ****