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.

Perfect posture and great bodies dominate in this oddball Tony Curtis comedy. Just about everyone in these reels of celluloid has a superb physique: Claudia Cardinale, Sharon Tate, and even the muscle men pumping iron on the beach. Hard to believe fact: this movie was based on a novel! Some of the bloated beach bums must have stumbled in from a "method" acting class. The leader savors every line of dialog as if it was Milton or Shakespeare. Weird. The setting is radiant to the eye. The special effects people deserve a gold metal for delivering some of the most realistic shots, up to that time, of the ground cracking open and an upscale villa sliding and tumbling down a steep embankment and into the surf. Impressive. It's sad to see Sharon Tate--so young and pretty--just three years before the Manson Gang got their hands on her. Miss Tate's character is skilled in many physical pursuits: trampoline and skydiving included. In one improbable scene, she saves Tony Curtis, James Bond-like, by strapping herself to the free-falling con-man. Miss Cardinale has the curves to match her rival, but she is straddled with shrill dialog and a cranky demeanor. Jim Backus plays himself and performs his "Mister Magoo" routine. I think the movie works so well because it perfectly captures the Southern California scene at a time when many things were changing--and not always for the best. The mid-sixties was the last gasp of a more innocent time and cinema. View after midnight--it rocks.

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.

This movie seems to have a lot going for it. The stunning photography of gorgeous Los Angeles; a charming theme song by The Byrds; two of the most beautiful women you could imagine , Sharon Tate and Claudia Cardinale; plus some funny folk in supporting roles. Strangely it misses. It just goes on and on with no laffs, and no particular purpose. Sharon , As in The wrecking Crew, proves she had great potential in comedy, and is so gorgeous you want to see more of her. So I would recommend this movie only for Sharon Tate fans. If you arent a fan, you will be disapointed as there is really nothing else here worthwhile. I waited to see the movie for a long time, and felt ripped off.