The Big Switch Explained

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

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

• Sebastian Breaks as John Carter
• Virginia Wetherell as Karen
• Jack Allen as Hornsby-Smith
• Derek Aylward as Karl Mendez
• Erika Raffael as Samantha
• Douglas Blackwell as Bruno Miglio
• Julie Shaw as Cathy
• Jane Howard as Jane
• Roy Sone as Al
• Nicholas Hawtrey as Gerry
• Brian Weske as Mike
• Gilly Grant as Sally
• Desmond Cullum-Jones as Chief Inspector
• Tracey Yorke as 1st stripper
• Lena Ellis as 2nd stripper

Production

The film was shot on location in Brighton.

Critical reception

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

1. Web site: Strip Poker . 1 December 2023 . British Film Institute Collections Search.
2. 1968 . For Men Only . . 35 . 408 . 183 . ProQuest.