The Big Switch

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The Big Switch
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Directed by Pete Walker
Written byPete Walker
Produced by
  • Charles J. Nicholl
  • Pete Walker
Starring
Cinematography Brian Tufano
Edited by Peter Austen-Hunt
Music by Harry South
Production
company
Peter Walker Film Productions
Distributed byMiracle Films
Release date
April 1968
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

The Big Switch, also known as Strip Poker, is a 1968 British crime film directed, written and produced by Pete Walker and starring Sebastian Breaks, Virginia Wetherell and Jack Allen. [1]

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Plot

Playboy John Carter is implicated in the murder of a blonde from a discotheque and is forced by gangsters into posing for pornographic photographs.

Cast

Production

Filming

The film was shot on location in Brighton.[ citation needed ]

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "The emphasis in this irrelevantly titied farrago soon shifts from sex to violence, with the titillatory promise of the opening scenes unfulfiled by the conventional and unconvincing thriller that follows. Still, the deserted ghost train on Brighton Pier makes an effective background for the climactic chase in the snow, and the Soho sequences have a realistically seed atmosphere." [2]

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References

  1. "Strip Poker". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  2. "For Men Only". Monthly Film Bulletin . 35 (408): 183. 1968 via ProQuest.