Don't Make Waves
- Tony Curtis: Carlo Cofield
- Claudia Cardinale: Laura Califatti
- David Draper: Harry Hollard
- Joanna Barnes: Diane Prescott
- Robert Webber: Rod Prescott
- Reg Lewis: Monster
- Mort Sahl: Sam Lingonberry
- Dub Taylor: Electrician
- Mary Grace Canfield: seamstress
- Holly Haze: Myrna
- Sarah Selby: ethyl
- Julie Payne: Helen
- Douglass Henderson: Henderson
- Chester Yorton: Ted Gunder
- Ann Elder: Millie Gunder
- Marc London: Fred Barker
- Paul Barselou: Pilot
- George Tyne: newsboy
- David Fresco: newsboy
- Gilbert Green: newsboy
- Eduardo Tirello: decorator
- Jim Backus
- Henny Backus
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. The film deals with relationship entanglements between various figures in California. This comedic aspects as well as pop and beach culture play an important role.
Action
The charming Carlo Cofield is in Southern California on the go. In order to enjoy the sea views, he parks his car for a moment at the roadside. Carlo meets with Italian, spirited hobby painter Laura, as they collide with her car with his parked car. Carlos car makes then autonomously and falls with all his important papers on a slope. Then take Laura to soothe her guilty conscience, with Carlo on. He discovers that Laura has a relationship with Rod Prescott, the managing director of a swimming pool company. Carlo, who has to start a new life now, Rod blackmailed trying to tell everything to his wife when he would not give him a job. Carlo falls in love with the pretty picture Malibu, but which is already romantically involved with the muscle-bound Harry. Through an intrigue Carlo Harry leads them to separate from Malibu. The then shows him to Carlo, who has since bought a house which stands on a slope. During a hurricane hit gradually Rod, his wife, Laura, Malibu and Harry in a Carlo. The house threatened by an overthrow down from the hurricane triggered landslide the slope. While everyone is waiting for the rescue workers forgives Harry Carlo and Malibu makes a request, it adopts. Rod and his wife are also closer again. And Carlo makes a request, it adopts also Laura. The film ends with the sliding down of the house, but all survive.