The Sweet Ride
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| Directed by | Harvey Hart |
| Produced by | Joe Pasternak |
| Screenplay by | Tom Mankiewicz |
| Based on | The Sweet Ride by William Murray |
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Tony Franciosa Michael Sarrazin Jacqueline Bisset Bob Denver Michael Wilding Michele Carey Lara Lindsay Norma Crane Percy Rodriguez Warren Stevens Pat Buttram |
| Music by | Pete Rugolo |
| Cinematography | Robert B. Hauser |
| Edited by | Philip W. Anderson |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,935,000 |
| Box office | $1.5 million (US/ Canada) |
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| Released | 1968 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label |
20th Century Fox 3198/S 4198 |
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The Sweet Ride is an 1968 American counter-culture drama with a few surfer/biker exploitation film elements. It stars Tony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset in an early starring role. The film also features Bob Denver in the role of Choo-Choo, a Beatnik piano-playing draft dodger. Sarrazin and Bisset were nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer, Male and Female respectively.
The Sweet Ride was directed by Harvey Hart and written by Tom Mankiewicz, based on a 1967 novel of the same name by William Murray (d. March 2005), a native of New York City, who had moved to southern California in 1966.
The story, told in flashbacks, concerns a middle-aged tennis bum (Franciosa) who shares a beach house with Sarrazin and Denver. Their carefree life becomes complicated, and later turns tragic, after they become involved with a mysterious young woman (Bisset) and a biker gang.
The San Francisco rock and roll band Moby Grape contributed to the soundtrack, and appeared, credited, in the film, performing the song "Never Again" in a Sunset Strip nightclub called the Tarantula. Other famous Sunset Strip locations include Gazzarri's and Scandia, as well as location filming in Malibu, according to reviews of the film.
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