1) The Brothers Rico (1957) - good Phil Karlson drama
2) Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) - lots of fun (compared to Gidget Goes to Rome which is just depressing)
3) Gidget (1959) - the film is ostensibly about Gidget surfing but in reality about the gentrification of Moondoggie
4) Guns of Navarone (1961) - he's effective in this and should've done more action films
5) The Time Traveller (1966) - no one forgot the skivvies
6) Venus in Furs (1967) - Jess Franco film - gets points for sheer weirdness
7) Diamond Head (1962) - Hawaiian melodrama with Darren as a "local" - quite fun if in right mood
8 ) Gunman's Walk (1957) - decent Phil Karlson Western with Tab Hunter given a decent role
9) All the Young Men (1960) - Korean War movie famous for trying to include someone in the cast for everone: Sidney Poitier for black audiences, Alan Ladd (looking dreadful) for older white audiences, Darren (singing a song) for teens, some Swedish boxer for sports fans, Mort Sahl for comedy fans
10) The Tijuana Story (1957) - Sam Katzman melodrama gives Darren an absurd death sequence running in to the ocean and drowning while being chased by the police but is actually quite compelling in its own way and has a rare Mexican hero in a Hollywood film.
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