Locked in! (1964)

Directed by Bud Browne. USA. 1964. 83 min. In 1987 Bud Browne's Locked In was voted by Surfer Magazine as one of the best surf films ever made. Featuring Greg Noll famously wiping out on a 25-foot wall at Outside Pipeline, a sketch that spoofs Adventures of Superman, and appearances from Phil Edwards, Dewey Weber, Buzzy Trent and Peter Cole, Mike Doyle, Mickey Munoz, David Nuuhiwa, Ricky Grigg, Fred Hemmings, Greg Abbott, Bobby August, Linda Benson, Peter Bergen and many more. The film also features local groms like Rick Raff of Kailua at 15 years old bookending Pipeline rides by Mainlander surfing hall-of-famers John Peck and Dick Catri. Side note: the film screened for the first time in Hawai'i, at McKinley High School auditorium, 50 years ago on July 15, 1965.