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Slippery When Wet (1958)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 12M

Director : Bruce Brown

Synopsis

Surfers Henry Ford, Freddy Pfhaler, Kemp Aaberg, Del Cannon, and Dick Thomas decide to leave California so they can embark on a dream trip to Hawaii. While in Hawaii the carefree quintet ride all kinds of waves at various top Hawaiian surfing spots and live together in a rundown shack on the North Shore of Oahu on only a hundred dollars a day.

Actors

Bruce Brown
Bruce Brown
Narrator

Crews

Bruce Brown
Bruce Brown
Director
Bruce Brown
Bruce Brown
Writer
Bud Shank
Bud Shank
Music
Bruce Brown
Bruce Brown
Director of Photography
Bruce Brown
Bruce Brown
Editor

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