Twisting on the beach to the far-out and groovy sounds of Gary Lewis & The Playboys, teen bikini babe Sandra Carter (Karen Jensen) overhears fez-wearing mastermind Big D (John Lawrence) share his evil plans with minions Mousie (Jimmy Murphy) and the hulking Huh! (Norman Grabowski). Enraged by teenagers and their mindless rock music, Big D aims to eliminate a certain fab foursome at their next concert. To save the day Sandra seeks out world-famous secret agent John Stamp (dig that gag, James Bond fans?). Unfortunately Stamp was hospitalized thanks to his bumbling butler Homer (Jonathan Daly) whom Sandra mistakes for the super-spy. Homer is happy to help, partly because Sandra is so pretty, but also because he always wanted his own mission. So Homer drives down to the beach in his gold-lined, gadget-laden ZZR to tangle with Big D, but gets all flustered when faced with three foxy female assassins.
Ah, but never mind the silly plot. Just soak in the sunshine, buff beach bodies and bikini babes and groove along to the surf-rock stylings of The Astronauts singing "Baby, Please Don't Go", The Knickerbockers performing a cover version of "It's Not Unusual" and The Turtles playing "She'll Come Back." Later on Dobie Gray performs the title song "(Out of Sight) Out on the Floor" and suffers the indignity of having his performance intercut with a 'zany' chase scene. Oh, and although the film steals footage of fans screaming at a Beatles concert from the documentary What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA, Big D actually winds up venting his rage on Freddie & The Dreamers. The British pop group perform not one but two songs: "Funny Over You" and "A Love Like You" sharing the stage with some lovely go-go dancers who mimic Freddie's distinctive (i.e. ridiculous) moves.
Not to be confused with the more famous George Clooney-Jennifer Lopez romantic crime caper of the same name, Out of Sight was the third and last in a series of films aimed at teenagers by director Lennie Weinrib and producer Brad Patton for Universal Pictures. Preceded by Beach Ball (1965) and Wild Wild Winter (1966) the film was an obvious cash-in on American International Pictures' Beach Party movies and, like that series, scripted by middle-aged men (co-writer Larry Hovis was also an actor on sitcom Hogan's Heroes) with next-to-no knowledge of the real teen scene in the swinging Sixties. Hence that would-be hip beach lingo is strictly squaresville, daddy-o. As with AIP's later Beach Party movies, Out of Sight tries to blend the teen musical genre with other Sixties film fads, principally the spy spoof. Between musical numbers a good portion of the rambling, episodic plot sends up spy film conventions while the film also throws in Sandra's dad (Forrest Lewis), an absent-minded professor. His crackpot inventions provide the deus ex machina once the film has exhausted Homer's banter with man-hungry geek girl Marvin (Carolyn Barry) and car-crazy Greg's (Robert Pine) terrible puns. Which to be honest happens long before the finale.
