Actors such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lewis, Nancy Sinatra, Dick Clark and other celebrities have been featured in films shot here. In the popular 1970s TV show
The Rockford Files, starring
James Garner, it was the first season's opening scene of episode 1 (The Kirkoff Case) airing September 13, 1974. It was featured in an episode of
Huell Howser's TV series ''California's Golden Parks''. During the final scenes of the
Tom Petty's "
Mary Jane's Last Dance" music video, Petty is seen carrying
Kim Basinger through a cave before placing her in the water. The group photo on the cover of
The Turtles Turtle Soup album (released in October, 1969) was taken here. In
Better Call Saul, it was featured in the final season during the opening of the episode "
Point and Shoot". This sequence is thus far the only scene from the "
Breaking Bad" universe not to be shot in
New Mexico. In ‘’
The Big Lebowski’’, it was mentioned by Walter Sobchak
John Goodman during the eulogy of Theodore Donald Kerabatsos
Steve Buscemi as one of the many places Donny surfed. Other movies filmed here include: •
Gidget (1959) •
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) •
Grease (1978) •
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) •
50 First Dates (2004) •
Psycho Beach Party (2000) •
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) •
The Usual Suspects (1995) •
Sylvia Scarlett (1935) •
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) •
Monster From The Surf (1965) •
Jack the Giant Killer (1962) •
Point Break (1991) •
The Craft (1996). •
That Thing You Do! (1996) •
Cast Away (2000) •
Orange County (2002) • ''
She's All That'' (1999) •
The Karate Kid (1984) •
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) •
Viking Women and the Sea Serpent (1957) •
Furious 7 (2015) •
The Mentalist (2008–2015) ==See also==