History Film / CatalinaCaper

* AndStarring: Introducing Venita Wolf as "Tina" ("[[Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf Who's afraid of Venita Wolf]], anyway?") and Brian Cutler as "Charlie" ("[[Theatre/ThePopeOfGreenwichVillage Charlie, they cut off my thumbs!]]").

** Also ventures close to HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday territory.

** ImpossibleHourglassFigure: The mermaid in the credits sequence.

* AndStarring: Introducing Venita Wolf as "Tina" ("[[WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf Who's afraid of Venita Wolf]], anyway?") and Brian Cutler as "Charlie" ("[[ThePopeOfGreenwichVillage Charlie, they cut off my thumbs!]]").

* MonochromeCasting: Little Richard is the ''only'' black person in the entire movie.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Arthur Duval's voice and manner are clearly patterned after JackBenny.

''Catalina Caper'' (also known as ''Never Steal Anything Wet'') is a campy 1967 musical comedy mystery film from Creator/CrownInternationalPictures starring Tommy Kirk. One of the last entries (if not ''the'' last) in the '60s beach party film genre exemplified by ''Film/BeachBlanketBingo'', this film blends the beach format with a standard crime-caper comedy.

* PoliceAreUseless: The security at the museum utterly fails at keeping out intruders after hours. On top of that, he actually sees Tad right as he's put a high profile stolen art piece back and doesn't even notice until ''after'' Tad has left.

* StupidCrooks: Larry in particular is a terrible thief at the start of the film - making off with the scroll by sheer dumb luck while making a ton of noise and even knocking over priceless artifacts in the process. The parents aren't much better either, completely failing to even hang on to their valuable artifact. Finally, Lakopolis' minion ends up losing the scroll almost instantly by trying to make off with it ''when the parents were selling it to him in the first place.''

* ThematicThemeTune: "Never Steal Anything Wet", upgraded to TitleThemeTune in some re-releases.

While about half the movie is just music numbers featuring teens dancing to music (at one point being serenaded by Music/LittleRichard[[note]]who is clearly stoned off his gourd[[/note]]), there is an actual plot that noses in from time to time. An ancient scroll is stolen from a museum in Los Angeles. The next day, teenager Don Pringle (Kirk) arrives on Catalina Island with his friend Charlie Moss (Brian Cutler), who is determined to teach the Arizona boy what the swingin' beach party scene is all about - and also hook him up with his sister, Tina (Venita Wolf). However, on the boat ride over, Don is taken by the exotic beauty of vaguely foreign Katrina Corelli (Ulla Strömstedt) - though she's on the island to accompany her fiance, the vaguely threatening Angelo (Lyle Waggoner). Meanwhile, another of Charlie's friends, Tad Duval (Peter Duryea), has arrived on the island along with his parents (Del Moore and Sue Casey); due to past history, he suspects they're up to something criminal. In reality, the parents have hired a burglar, Larry (Jim Begg), to steal the scroll from the museum so they can craft a forgery and sell it to their rich foreign mark Dino Lakopolis (Lee Deane). All the while, they're being trailed by hapless insurance investigator Fingers O'Toole (Robert Donner), who just wants to recover the scroll for the museum and hopefully arrest the larcenous Duvals in the process. After one of Lakopolis' men attempts to steal the scroll from the Duvals, it winds up in the water - leading to not one, but ''two'' under water scuba diving knife fights in the film as the teens get wise to the scheme.

* AndStarring: Introducing Venita Wolf as 'Tina' ("[[WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf Who's afraid of Venita Wolf]], anyway?") and Brian Cutler as 'Charlie' ("[[ThePopeOfGreenwichVillage Charlie, they cut off my thumbs!]]").

* ButtMonkey: Fingers is pretty much defined by his constant pratfalls. If there is even the slightest chance that he will trip, fall into the water, or create a scenario where someone slaps him, ''it will happen.'' After all of the abuse he suffers in the film, he finally can't even succeed at his original goal - arresting Arthur Duval for his numerous crimes - because his son Tad had secretly returned the scroll and thus left no evidence of Duval's crimes.

While about half the movie is just music numbers featuring teens dancing to music (at one point being serenaded by Music/LittleRichard), there is an actual plot that noses in from time to time. An ancient scroll is stolen from a museum in Los Angeles. The next day, teenager Don Pringle (Kirk) arrives on Catalina Island with his friend Charlie Moss (Brian Cutler), who is determined to teach the Arizona boy what the swingin' beach party scene is all about - and also hook him up with his sister, Tina (Venita Wolf). However, on the boat ride over, Don is taken by the exotic beauty of vaguely foreign Katrina Corelli (Ulla Strömstedt) - though she's on the island to accompany her fiance, the vaguely threatening Angelo (Lyle Waggoner). Meanwhile, another of Charlie's friends, Tad Duval (Peter Duryea), has arrived on the island along with his parents (Del Moore and Sue Casey); due to past history, he suspects they're up to something criminal. In reality, the parents have hired a burglar, Larry (Jim Begg), to steal the scroll from the museum so they can craft a forgery and sell it to their rich foreign mark Dino Lakopolis (Lee Deane). All the while, they're being trailed by hapless insurance investigator Fingers O'Toole (Robert Donner), who just wants to recover the scroll for the museum and hopefully arrest the larcenous Duvals in the process. After one of Lakopolis' men attempts to steal the scroll from the Duvals, it winds up in the water - leading to not one, but ''two'' under water scuba diving knife fights in the film as the teens get wise to the scheme.

While about half the movie is just music numbers featuring teens dancing to music (at one point being serenaded by Music/LittleRichard), there is an actual plot that noses in from time to time. An ancient scroll is stolen from a museum in Los Angeles. The next day, teenager Don Pringle (Kirk) arrives on Catalina Island with his friend Charlie Moss (Brian Cutler), who is determined to teach the Arizona boy what the swingin' beach party scene is all about - and also hook him up with his sister, Tina. However, on the boat ride over, Don is taken by the exotic beauty of vaguely foreign Katrina Corelli (Ulla Strömstedt) - though she's on the island to accompany her fiance, the vaguely threatening Angelo. Meanwhile, another of Charlie's friends, Tad Duval (Peter Duryea), has arrived on the island along with his parents (Del Moore and Sue Casey); due to past history, he suspects they're up to something criminal. In reality, the parents have hired a burglar, Larry (Jim Begg), to steal the scroll from the museum so they can craft a forgery and sell it to their rich foreign mark Dino Lakopolis (Lee Deane). All the while, they're being trailed by hapless insurance investigator Fingers O'Toole (Robert Donner), who just wants to recover the scroll for the museum and hopefully arrest the larcenous Duvals in the process. After one of Lakopolis' men attempts to steal the scroll from the Duvals, it winds up in the water - leading to not one, but ''two'' under water scuba diving knife fights in the film as the teens get wise to the scheme.

While about half the movie is just music numbers featuring teens dancing to music (at one point being serenaded by Little Richard), there is an actual plot that noses in from time to time. An ancient scroll is stolen from a museum in Los Angeles. The next day, teenager Don Pringle (Kirk) arrives on Catalina Island with his friend Charlie Moss (Brian Cutler), who is determined to teach the Arizona boy what the swingin' beach party scene is all about - and also hook him up with his sister, Tina. However, on the boat ride over, Don is taken by the exotic beauty of vaguely foreign Katrina Corelli (Ulla Strömstedt) - though she's on the island to accompany her fiance, the vaguely threatening Angelo. Meanwhile, another of Charlie's friends, Tad Duval (Peter Duryea), has arrived on the island along with his parents (Del Moore and Sue Casey); due to past history, he suspects they're up to something criminal. In reality, the parents have hired a burglar, Larry (Jim Begg), to steal the scroll from the museum so they can craft a forgery and sell it to their rich foreign mark Dino Lakopolis (Lee Deane). All the while, they're being trailed by hapless insurance investigator Fingers O'Toole (Robert Donner), who just wants to recover the scroll for the museum and hopefully arrest the larcenous Duvals in the process. After one of Lakopolis' men attempts to steal the scroll from the Duvals, it winds up in the water - leading to not one, but ''two'' under water scuba diving knife fights in the film as the teens get wise to the scheme.

While about half the movie is just music numbers featuring teens dancing to music (at one point being serenaded by Little Richard), there is an actual plot that noses in from time to time. An ancient scroll is stolen from a museum in Los Angeles. The next day, teenager Don Pringle (Kirk) arrives on Catalina Island with his friend Charlie Moss (Brian Cutler), who is determined to teach the Arizona boy what the swingin' beach party scene is all about - and also hook him up with his sister, Tina. However, on the boat ride over, Don is taken by the exotic beauty of vaguely foreign Katrina Corelli (Ulla Strömstedt) - though she's on the island to accompany her fiance, the vaguely threatening Angelo. Meanwhile, another of Charlie's friends, Tad Duval, has arrived on the island along with his parents. Due to past history, he suspects they're up to something criminal. In reality, the parents have hired a burglar, Larry, to steal the scroll from the museum so they can craft a forgery and sell it to their rich foreign mark Dino Lakopolis. All the while, they're being trailed by the hapless insurance investigator, Fingers O'Toole, who just wants to recover the scroll for the museum and hopefully arrest the larcenous Duvals in the process. After one of Lakopolis' men attempts to steal the scroll from the Duvals, it winds up in the water - leading to not one, but ''two'' under water scuba diving knife fights in the film as the teens get wise to the scheme.

'''''Catalina Caper''''' (also known as ''Never Steal Anything Wet'') is a campy 1967 musical comedy mystery film from Creator/CrownInternationalPictures starring Tommy Kirk. This is one of the last (if not the last) in the beach party film genre exemplified by ''Film/BeachBlanketBingo''. This entry blends the beach format with a standard crime-caper comedy.

* HumansAreWhite: Little Richard is the ''only'' black person in the entire movie.

* DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment: When telling about things to do on Catalina, Charlie mentions girls every other time.

* TheCaper: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Natch.]] Though much of the film ignores the scroll arc entirely as the caper is successfully pulled at the start of the film and the rest of it is how the parents intend to unload the scroll.

'''''Catalina Caper''''' (also known as ''Never Steal Anything Wet'') is a campy 1967 musical comedy mystery film from Creator/CrownInternationalPictures starring Tommy Kirk. This is one of the last (if not the last) in the beach party film genre originally created by American International Pictures (AIP) from 1963 to 1966. This entry blends the beach format with a standard crime-caper comedy.

Tommy Kirk's other beach films include ''It's a Bikini World'' (1967), and two AIP features, ''Pajama Party'' (1965) and ''The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini'' (1966).

An ancient scroll is stolen from a museum and teenage 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 Katrina Corelli (Ulla Strömstedt) 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
* '''Don Pringle '''(Tommy Kirk) -- A friend of Charlie Moss' from college. Don is used to living in a desert environment, and Charlie's decision to bring him to Catalina Island is the first time he's seen the Pacific Ocean.
* '''Charlie Moss''' (Brian Cutler) -- A friend to Don Pringle, whom he met in college. A resident of Catalina Island, Charlie happily takes Don to have fun. Charlie is also a rather popular lady's man, and [[SexyManInstantHarem usually has a group of 3 girls fawning over him the moment he returns to the island]].
* '''Katrina Corelli''' (Ulla Strömstedt) -- Going to visit Catalina Island to be with her boyfriend, Don Pringle meets her on the boat ride over. Something about her also makes her appealing to a number of guys on the island. (Better known as the "Creepy Girl".)
* '''Tina Moss''' (Venita Wolf) -- Charlie's sister. Assigned to show Don a good time, she takes him scuba-diving, and develops a crush on Don. Grows jealous at his affections to Katrina.
* '''Arthur Duval''' (Del Moore) -- Would-be GentlemanThief and con artist "vacationing" on Catalina Island with his wife and son. Plans to pass a fake scroll off to a wealthy foreigner named Lakopolous.
* '''Anne Duval''' (Sue Casey) -- Arthur's wife. Plans to use her art skills to duplicate the stolen scroll.
* '''Tad Duval''' (Peter Duryea) -- Arthur and Anne's son. Suspects that his parents are on Catalina as part of a shady scheme, even though his parents deny it.
* '''Larry''' (Jim Begg) -- The Duvals' henchman. A [[GameOfNerds baseball fanatic]] who steals an ancient Chinese scroll that Arthur and Anne plan to create a duplicate of.
* '''Bob Draper''' (Mike Blodgett) -- A member of the Catalina Island Harbor Patrol who is caught up in the scheme of the Duvals'. Works with Don and Tad to hatch a plan.
* '''Fingers O'Toole''' (Robert Donner) -- An agent who tails Larry to Catalina Island, hoping to catch Arthur Duval red-handed with the stolen scroll.
* '''Lakopolous''' (Lee Deane) -- A foreign man with a thick accent, who is known to collect plenty of rare antiquities. Come to Catalina to retrieve the scroll from Arthur Duval.
* '''Borman''' (Peter Mamakos) -- Lakopolous' assistant. Tries to obtain the scroll from Duval without taking payment.
* '''Angelo''' (Lyle Waggoner) -- Katrina's boyfriend who is on Catalina under the employ of Borman and Lakopolous. Has a quick temper, and is willing to kill to get the scroll for his employer.
* '''Little Richard'''.....Himself
* '''The Cascades'''.....Themselves
* '''Carol Connors'''.....Herself

* TheCaper: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Natch.]]

* InformedAttractiveness: Katrina's pretty, but somehow she manages to attract ''every single guy'' on the beach.

* MacGuffin: The scroll

For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E04CatalinaCaper episode recap page]].
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* '''Larry''' (Jim Begg) -- The Duvals' henchman. A baseball fanatic who steals an ancient Chinese scroll that Arthur and Anne plan to create a duplicate of.

* '''Tina Moss''' (Venita Wolf) -- Charlie's sister. Assigned to show Don a good time, she takes him scuba-diving, and develops a crush on Don. Grows jealous at his affecions to Katrina.

* '''Larry''' (Jim Begg) -- The Duval's henchman. A baseball fanatic who steals an ancient Chinese scroll that Arthur and Anne plan to create a duplicate of.
* '''Bob Draper''' (Mike Blodgett) -- A member of the Catalina Island Harbor Patrol who is caught up in the scheme of the Duval's. Works with Don and Tad to hatch a plan.

* HumansAreWhite: Little Richard is the ''only'' black person in the entire movie.
* DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment: When telling about things to do on Catalina, Charlie mentions girls every other time.

'''''Catalina Caper''''' (also known as ''Never Steal Anything Wet'') is a campy 1967 musical comedy mystery film from CrownInternationalPictures starring Tommy Kirk. This is one of the last (if not the last) in the beach party film genre originally created by American International Pictures (AIP) from 1963 to 1966. This entry blends the beach format with a standard crime-caper comedy.

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E04CatalinaCaper episode recap page]].