Don't Make Waves

Don't Make Waves
original movie poster
Directed byAlexander Mackendrick
Screenplay byIra Wallach
George Kirgo
Maurice Richlin (adaptation)
Based onMuscle Beach
1959 novel
by Ira Wallach
Produced byJohn Calley
Martin Ransohoff
StarringTony Curtis
Claudia Cardinale
Sharon Tate
Robert Webber
Joanna Barnes
Dave Draper
CinematographyPhilip H. Lathrop
Edited byRita Roland
Thomas Stanford
Music byVic Mizzy
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • June 9, 1967 (1967-06-09)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.25 million (US/ Canada)[1][2]

Don't Make Waves is a 1967 American sex comedy (with elements of the beach party genre) starring Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Dave Draper and Sharon Tate. Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and is based on the 1959 novel Muscle Beach by Ira Wallach, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

The film depicts a series of romantic triangles between different groupings of the principal cast and supporting players among several backdrops involving Southern California culture (swimming pools, bodybuilding, beach life, fantastic real estate, mudslides, metaphysical gurus, etc.).

  1. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1967", Variety, 3 January 1968 p 25. Please note these figures refer to rentals accruing to the distributors.
  2. ^ Lisanti, Thomas (2005). Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969. McFarland. p. 324. ISBN 1-476-60142-9.