| The Sweet Ride | |
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| Directed by | Harvey Hart |
| Screenplay by | Tom Mankiewicz |
| Based on | The Sweet Ride by William Murray |
| Produced by | Joe Pasternak |
| Starring | Tony Franciosa Michael Sarrazin Jacqueline Bisset Bob Denver Michael Wilding Michele Carey Lara Lindsay Norma Crane Percy Rodriguez Warren Stevens Pat Buttram |
| Cinematography | Robert B. Hauser |
| Edited by | Philip W. Anderson |
| Music by | Pete Rugolo |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,935,000[1] |
| Box office | $1.5 million (US/ Canada)[2][3] |
The Sweet Ride is a 1968 American drama film 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, author, fiction editor and a native of New York City, who had moved to southern California in 1966.
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p255
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969 p 15. Please note this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.
- ^ Tom Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969, McFarland 2005, p343