The Swap

Original title: Sam's Song

1969
R
1h 29m

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A film editor spends a weekend in Long Island with his friends Andrew and Erica Moore, a wealthy couple. Later, a young woman named Carol enters their lives and proceeds to disrupt everyone.A film editor spends a weekend in Long Island with his friends Andrew and Erica Moore, a wealthy couple. Later, a young woman named Carol enters their lives and proceeds to disrupt everyone.A film editor spends a weekend in Long Island with his friends Andrew and Erica Moore, a wealthy couple. Later, a young woman named Carol enters their lives and proceeds to disrupt everyone.

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3.4/10

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Robert De Niro

Sam Nicoletti

Sybil Danning

Jarred Mickey

Andrew Moore
(as Jered Mickey)

Jennifer Warren

Erica Moore

Terrayne Crawford

Carole Moore

Martin J. Kelley

Mitch Negroni
(as Martin Kelley)

Phyllis Black

Marge Negroni

Vic Ramos

Dennis
(as Ric Vamos)

Margit Echols

Belly Dancer

Viva

Girl with the Hourglass

Monica Davis

Woman at Party
(uncredited)

Director
- Jordan Leondopoulos
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- Jordan Leondopoulos
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Trivia
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.

Alternate versions
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.

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Edited into The Swap (1979)

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2/10

Not one for DeNiro to be proud of

The revised title, "The Swap", introduces a certain amount of confusion. The viewer will spend the entire duration of this poor movie wondering what the producers are referring to as a "swap" and not come up with anything plausible. But where a neutral or bland lack of point to support the title would be bad enough, this production actively makes matters worse. This happens in the following way: one of the main characters (Ann) is portrayed by two actresses, one of whom is supposedly 10 years younger than the other. Infuriatingly, the younger actress looks nothing at all like the older actress, and the viewer is led to the FALSE conclusion that the character played by the older actress is an impostor, so that the "swap" concerns one person stealing another's identity. Nothing so interesting turns out to be the fact, of course, and nothing else turns up as a better candidate for the "swap." There are lots of GOOD movies to see; there's no reason to waste time with this one.