surfer.com - "Birth Of The Endless Summer" Makes Its Los Angels Premiere
From Cape Saint Francis to Santa Monica, the new documentary details just how Bruce Brown's "The Endless Summer" came to be.
At 92 years young, nobody tells a surf story like Dick Metz. As spry and cagey as ever, the man’s lived a thousand lives and is happy to talk about each of them. From childhood days hanging on the sand in Laguna Beach with Shirley Temple, to stowing away with a bunch of French legionnaire on a ship to Tahiti, to launching the Hobie Surfboards effort in Hawaii in the ‘60s (“We didn’t like going into the Hobie shop in town when we were kids because Dick would yell at us for getting fingerprints on the boards,” smirks Gerry Lopez), but perhaps the man’s fait accompli came when he tipped off his buddy, filmmaker Bruce Brown, to a spot in South Africa he should check out on his next film project. The spot was Cape Saint Francis. The tip would launch a million surf trips.