Sweet Savior

Sweet Savior
Directed by	Bob Roberts
Produced by	Bob Roberts
Written by	Matt Cavanaugh
Based on	an original story by Bob Roberts
Starring	Troy Donahue
Music by	Jerry Barry Gilbert Splacin
Cinematography	Victor Petroshevitz
Edited by	John Connoll
Distributed by	Trans World Attractions
Release date	1971
Running time	92 mins
Country	United States
Language	English

Sweet Savior is a 1971 film starring Troy Donahue as a Charles Manson-type cult leader.

It was also known as The Idiotic Couple.

Lloyd Kaufman was production manager.

Troy Donahue said while promoting the film:

I play Moon, a religious creep who murders a lot of people, a real heavy trip. But I don't want anyone to think I'm playing it in some phony exploitation flick that takes advantage of the Manson case to make a fast buck. I don't like many things, man, but I dig this picture... We're trying to show both sides of the problem. The Hollywood glamor society is as guilty as the depraved hippy cults. They pick up people on the Sunset Boulevard and tease them. When they made fun of Manson they picked on the wrong guy. I was up at the Tate house. It was a freaky scene. Sure I met Manson at the beach playing volleyball.

Director Bob Roberts said:

I had the idea not to make the Mason story per se but to inform people the Sharon Tate thing was not just an isolated incident. Many other cults are murdering people. They're just not as publicised. There are a lot of so-called families like Mason's with one dictatorial leader who controls his group through drugs, pills, sex, LSD and many other ways. These people are a threat to the fabric of society because they commit murder without conscience.

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