Both a Bond spoof and a Beach Party comedy, OUT OF SIGHT is a fun and funny '66 comedy starring the personable Jonathan Daly as a secret agent's butler mistaken for a super-spy. Customized cars by Batmobile designer George Barris play a large role and there are musical guests a-plenty including The Turtles, Freddie and the Dreamers, Gary Lewis and the Playboys and Dobie Gray.
The film was written by future HOGAN'S HEROES co-star Larry Hovis and, in fact, has another future star of that show, Richard Dawson, in a small role. The director was legendary Lennie Weinrib, a stand-up comic and voice-actor who, among other things, played HR PUFNSTUF (the voice anyway. He wasn't in the suit.).
Tying together my recent posts here, Wende Wagner appears in OUT OF SIGHT. Also, according to IMDB, as unlikely as it seems, Daly's one film appearance before this was in an early DJANGO sequel. Yeah. Sure.
Thanks for giving this movie a shout-out! I was lucky to tape this off of AMC years back so I could catch "Malibu Run" by Gary Lewis & The Playboys. It's the one song of theirs that never made it to vinyl, let alone CD, which is too bad, considering its hot organ and guitar solos!
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I bought the model kit of that clearly insane dual-V8-powered car back then - definitely something I wish I still had.
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