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Name: Ride the Wild Surf
Released: 1964-8-5
Cast: Fabian, Shelley Fabares, Tab Hunter, Barbara Eden, iTunes Feature Presentation [Presentation.0]

Ride the Wild Surf

NR
1h 42m
1964

80%

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Three young Californians pack their boards and head for Hawaii to take on the monster waves at Oahu's North Shore. In no time, each is involved with his own beach bunny. Still, when the big contest that has brought the boys to Hawaii rolls around, the surfers are all business.

Director:

Don Taylor

Cast:

Fabian, Shelley Fabares, Tab Hunter, Barbara Eden, iTunes Feature Presentation [Presentation.0]

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

80%

Reviews

New York Times

Eugene Archer

Fabian, Tab Hunter and Peter Brown are also surprisingly agreeable. Outside the water, they match with Shelley Fabares, Susan Hart and Barbara Eden, but these activities are kept to a sensible minimum. So long as they stay in the surf, everyone is happy.

It is wholesome, routine entertainment that should please the younger set. It has an attractive, healthy-looking cast, some exciting shots of expert surfing and a lot of lush Hawaiian is ands scenery in color.

Taken as a group, the three young men display about as much acting talent as a pack of zombies at midnight.

I have recently fallen under the spell of teen surfing movies, an enthusiasm I should probably try to pass off as sociological. In fact, they amuse me. Of the current crop, I am pleased to report that Ride the Wild Surf is a first-rate surfer.

Although Ride the Wild Surf is hardly compelling drama, its performances are more engaging than might be expected, and there's lots of outstanding surfing footage -- not to mention the super-catchy title song by Jan and Dean.

March 14, 2024

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