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The Big Switch | |
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Directed by | Pete Walker |
Written by | Pete Walker |
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Cinematography | Brian Tufano |
Edited by | Peter Austen-Hunt |
Music by | Harry South |
Production company | Peter Walker Film Productions |
Distributed by | Miracle Films |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Big Switch (also 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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The film was shot on location in Brighton.[ citation needed ]
The 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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