Catalina Caper

Infobox Film
name = Catalina Caper


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director = Lee Sholem
producer = Jack Bartlett
Bond Blackman
writer = Sam Pierce (story)
Clyde Ware
starring = Tommy Kirk
music = Jerry Long
cinematography = Ted V. Mikels
editing = Herman Freedman
distributor = Crown International Pictures
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runtime = 84 mins.
country = USA
language = English

"Catalina Caper" (also known as "Never Steal Anything Wet") is a campy 1967 musical comedy mystery film starring Tommy Kirk in the same vein as other beach movies in the late 1960s. It was featured in the second season of movie-mocking television show "Mystery Science Theater 3000" ("MST3K"). The film was shot in Santa Catalina Island, California.

Plot summary

An ancient scroll is stolen from a museum and teenager Don Pringle (Kirk) arrives on Catalina Island at the same time. Although approximately half the film involves bathing suit-clad teenagers dancing on yachts (once while being serenaded by Little Richard) in several different dance montages, Pringle and his teen friends investigate the scroll's theft and discover the parents of one of the boys is responsible for the theft — also while attempting to woo a mysteriously depressed young woman from her vaguely threatening boyfriend Angelo (a young Lyle Waggoner). After wrestling the scroll away from Angelo and his cohorts, bent on more dangerous results (in an underwater scuba diving action scene), the boys shame the guilty parents into giving it back to the museum.

Cast

* Tommy Kirk.....Don Pringle
* Robert Donner.....Fingers O'Toole
* Peter Duryea.....Tad Duval
* Del Moore.....Arthur Duval
* Lyle Waggoner.....Angelo
* Jim Begg.....Larry
* Mike Blodgett.....Bob Draper
* Sue Casey.....Anne Duval
* Brian Cutler.....Charlie Moss
* Lee Deane.....Lakopolous
* Peter Mamakos.....Borman
* Ulla Strömstedt.....Katrina Corelli
* Venita Wolf.....Tina Moss
* The Cascades.....Themselves
* Carol Connors.....Herself
* Little Richard.....Himself

DVD releases

* The "MST3K" version of the film (accompanied by the uncut version, included as a bonus feature) was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the "Collection, Volume 1" DVD set.

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