The Sweet Ride

The Sweet Ride
Film poster
Directed byHarvey Hart
Screenplay byTom Mankiewicz
Based onThe Sweet Ride by William Murray
Produced byJoe Pasternak
StarringTony Franciosa
Michael Sarrazin
Jacqueline Bisset
Bob Denver
Michael Wilding
Michele Carey
Lara Lindsay
Norma Crane
Percy Rodriguez
Warren Stevens
Pat Buttram
CinematographyRobert B. Hauser
Edited byPhilip W. Anderson
Music byPete Rugolo
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • June 12, 1968 (1968-06-12)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969 p 15. Please note this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.
  3. ^ Tom Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969, McFarland 2005, p343