Skateboard (film)

Skateboard
Directed by	George Gage
Produced by	Harry N. Blum
Written by	Dick Wolf (as Richard A. Wolf) George Gage
Starring	Leif Garrett Allen Garfield Kathleen Lloyd Richard Van der Wyk Gordon Jump
Music by	Mark Snow
Cinematography	Ross Kelsay
Edited by	Robert Angus
Release date	1978
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States

Skateboard is a 1978 American film directed by George Gage and starring Leif Garrett. Tony Alva features in a cameo as "Tony Blue-tile".

A Hollywood agent with gambling debts has to come up with the cash fast. He organizes a team of skateboarders to enter them in a major skateboarding competition in spite of opposition from a dangerous gangster.

The song played over the opening footage was recorded by Airborne, whose members Mickey Thomas and Craig Chaquico later served as lead vocalist and guitarist of Starship.

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