Catalina Caper

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Catalina Caper is a campy 1967 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).

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.