The Swap

The movie was never released theatrically, due to the filmmakers running out of money to secure distribution. It was not until 2007 that the original film, not the 1979 re-cut version, was finally released on DVD.

In 1979, a re-cut version was made by the Cannon Group to capitalize on the Oscar-winning success of Robert De Niro, although the plot is very, very different from the original film. In the new footage, a story was told about how Sammy was killed under mysterious circumstances while finishing the editing a porno film he made (in the original cut, he was editing a documentary about Richard Nixon and insert shots featuring a nude couple having sex were added in its place). His recently paroled older brother Vito (played by Anthony Charnota) is determined to get to the bottom of who killed Sammy. He visits Erica (played in the new footage by Lisa Blount), a secretary, Sammy's former girlfriend Carol (played in the new footage by Sybil Danning), and Andrew Moore, now a homosexual, to get clues about Sammy's death, but things are not as they seem as Vito is encounters double-crosses and near-misses during his quest to solve the mystery.

Edited into The Swap (1979)