Don't Make Waves

Out-of-towner Carlo (Tony Curtis) who, although innocent, was sent to sleep on the Malibu beach by the sugar-daddy of artist Laura (Claudia Cardinale), whom he hardly knows, wakes up and meets locals including surfer Sharon Tate, bawdy directing by Alexander Mackendrick, in Don’t Make Waves, 1967.

The title song composed to order by Jim McGuinn and Chris Hillman and performed by their band The Byrds (also the flip-side of their single “Have You Seen Her Face”), and director Alexander Mackendrick’s introduction of leads Tony Curtis and, at a distance, Claudia Cardinale, from Don’t Make Waves, 1967.

A swimming-pool salesman gets mixed up with beauty queens and body builders in Don't Make Waves (1967) starring Tony Curtis & Claudia Cardinale.

Evening at the Malibu home of flighty Italian painter Laura (Claudia Cardinale), who earlier in the day destroyed the car (and pants) owned by baffled tourist Carlo (Tony Curtis), she’s supposed to be finding her insurance documents, in the MGM beach farce Don’t Make Waves, 1967.