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.
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.