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The Big Switch

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The Big Switch
Directed byPete Walker
Written byPete Walker
Produced by
  • Charles J. Nicholl
  • Pete Walker
Starring
CinematographyBrian Tufano
Edited byPeter Austen-Hunt
Music byHarry South
Production
company
Peter Walker Film Productions
Distributed byMiracle Films
Release date
  • April 1968 (1968-04)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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]

Plot

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

Cast

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Production

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

Critical reception

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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]

References

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  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.
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