This is one of my favorite movies about Los Angeles. It has everything.
Gorgeous locations on the beach, stunningly beautiful actors, a brilliant and witty script full of hilarious, exageratted incidents which are nevertheless typical of LA.
It is not only funny but engaging, the plot is interesting. It was even better the second time I saw it on the big screen, where it is best seen.
I was totally captivated by this film.
I find this film much wittier and funnier, for example, than "Some Like It Hot", also with Curtis, and I find Sharon Tate much sexier than Monroe in that film.
The plot is a bit crazy but compeletely believable and consistent with itself and reality; as a comedy it falls in the exagerrated or surrealistic category, only slightly dark because of the various difficulties that beset the hero.
Above all it is a brilliant comment on Los Angeles of the sixties and is still valid in the 2000's. An overlooked gem, a great cast, which may work best for those who have lived in LA.
Another film like this, with good LA locations, less comedy more suspense, is "Into the Night".
