Mort Sahl

A close friend who prefers to remember the laughs that Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears, profiles the outrageous, groundbreaking comic whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble.

Upstart comedian Lenny Bruce is the subject of this documentary by Fred Baker that features performance footage of Bruce's stand-up comedy and interviews with those who knew him best. Ahead of his time, Bruce was persecuted for dishing out anti-establishment humor in a decidedly conservative era. Steve Allen, Paul Krassner, Mort Sahl, Kenneth Tynan, Nat Hentoff and Malcolm Muggeridge share personal memories of Bruce in candid video memoirs.

Sharon Tate, portraying a beach-loving, sky-diving beauty named Malibu fills up the screen in a gleeful sand-and-surf-and-sex satire based on Ira Wallach's Muscle Beach. Set to a title tune by The Byrds and targeting SoCal's go-go beach culture.

"It's entertainment that fills up the screen like she fills out a bikini," the trailer for Don't Make Waves proclaimed. She is Sharon Tate, portraying a beach-loving, sky-diving beauty named Malibu. The entertainment filling up the screen is a gleeful sand-and-surf-and-sex satire based on Ira Wallach's Muscle Beach, set to a title tune by The Byrds and targeting SoCal's go-go beach culture and the high-living hillside denizens of its ocean-view enclaves. Tony Curtis, reteaming with director Andrew Mackendrick of Sweet Smell of Success, plays an eastern interloper who arrives with little and hits on ways to finagle his way into lots. Also making waves: Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes and bodybuilder David Draper.

This high-impact thriller finds exiled crime boss Colini (Marc Lawrence) training young Sicilian thug Giordano (Henry Silva) to be a heartless assassin. Giordano, dubbed Johnny Cool, goes to America with instructions to wipe out the mobsters responsible for Colini's deportation. Johnny travels the country on a murderous rampage and finds love with a troubled singer (Elizabeth Montgomery), whom the mob abuses in an effort to stop the cold killer.