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Out of Sight is a 1966 beach party film with elements of the spy spoof. It is the third and last of a series of films geared at teenagers by director Lennie Weinrib and producer Bart Patton for Universal Pictures. Perhaps inspired by the success of the American International Pictures' teenage films, as well as Weinrib and Patton's Beach Party knockoff, Beach Ball, Universal and MCA signed a contract in 1965 for the pair to make 14 rock and roll films in a two-year period; however, the only ones produced were Wild Wild Winter and this film.
Out of Sight features a variety of Universal contract players, musical performances by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Dobie Gray, Freddie and the Dreamers, The Astronauts, The Turtles and The Knickerbockers provided by music producer Nick Venet, and gadget-laden motor vehicles designed by George Barris. The film's spytime score was composed by Fred Darian (who then managed Dobie Gray) and Al DeLory.
The film was written by Larry Hovis a comedian who was then co-starring in Hogan's Heroes.
You called me up and I turned you down. I can't keep coming around every
time you dial my digits darlin'. You think of me only when you're feeling a
little too lonely. Anytime you think you'd like to hold me, anytime you'd
like. I thought I'd be lost forever, thought I'd never find my way. Thought
we'd always be together, thought I'd never see the day. And I close my
eyes, and I feel alright because you're out of mind when you're out of
sight. Now I'm kick starting something new becuase I swear to god that I'm
over you. I'm tired of feeling sick and blue, tired of never knowing what
to do. So I sit back and watch the show, and start to let these feelings
go. I'm tired of feeling like I don't have a clue, tired of always running
back to you. And I close my eyes and I feel alright because you're out of
mind when you're out of sight. And you're watching me, wondering what I'll