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The Sweet Ride is a american film of genre Drama directed by Harvey Hart released in USA on 12 june 1968 with Anthony Franciosa

The Sweet Ride (1968)

The Sweet Ride
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Released in USA 12 june 1968
Length 1h50
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy-drama
Rating55% 2.760762.760762.760762.760762.76076

The Sweet Ride (1968) is an 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.

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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.

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