Don't Make Waves

An unusual comedy from Alexander Mackendrick which turned out to be his final film before he retired. Tony Curtis plays a man who loses everything he owns when he bumps into Claudia Cardinale. He starts over and through some careful manipulation begins to make in the lucrative field of pool sales. It's a satire of Malibu beach culture circa-1967. The debut film of the doomed Sharon Tate, whom I feel bad for in that she is exploited for her body because she can't act a lick. The most memorable scene is the climax in which Curtis' recently purchased cliff-side home, slides down the cliff during a nasty rain storm and ends up on the beach.