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Released
1968 · FILM

The Sweet Ride

The Cycles... The Surf... And The Swingers That Make It All Go!

Directed by
Runtime
110 min
Drama

Synopsis

AA tennis bum (Tony Franciosa) and his Malibu Beach buddies hang out with a TV actress (Jacqueline Bisset) headed for trouble.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Philip W AndersonShot by Robert B HauserScored by Pete Rugolo

Box Office

1968 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.6M

Budget$1.9M
Worldwide gross$2.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die wilden Jahrede
  • La playaes
  • Fureur à la plagefr
  • L'onda lungait

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