Catalina Caper

Catalina Caper (1967)

Wild adventure... international intrigue!

A group of swingin' teens take time out from having fun in the sun to try to foil a group of crooks searching for a stolen scroll.

Date of release
1967-12-01
TMDB
2.4 / 10 (28)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director
Lee Sholem

Casting

Interesting facts

Catalina Caper, also known as Never Steal Anything Wet, is a 1967 comedy musical mystery film starring Tommy Kirk. It blends the beach party format with a standard crime-caper comedy. It was shot on and around Santa Catalina Island, California.

Production

Both Never Steal Anything Wet and Scuba Party were working titles, before Catalina Caper was chosen.

Produced by Executive Pictures Corporation, formed by Bond Blackman and Jack Barlett, it started filming in September 1965, on Catalina Island. Tommy Kirk was signed to a four-picture contract, of which this was to be the first. Kirk was announced for Scuba Party in August 1965, but he did not wind up making any of the other films.

Kirk appeared in four other films in the beach party genre: Village of the Giants (1965); two AIP features, Pajama Party (1965) and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966); and It's a Bikini World (1967). Sue Casey was seen earlier as one of the female leads in another beach party film, 1965's The Beach Girls and the Monster.

Ted V. Mikels recalls "I loved shooting that... Little Richard did whatever I suggested. I didn't direct him though. He was very pleasant to work with. He was just another performer."

Catalina Caper composer Jerry Long also wrote the music for another beach party film, Wild Wild Winter. The two films are his only onscreen credits. Long also wrote two songs for the film, "Never Steal Anything Wet", heard over the opening/closing credits and performed by Mary Wells; and "Scuba Party", performed onscreen by Little Richard, who is also credited as a co-writer on the song.

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