The Swappers
Cast & Crew
Derek Ford
James Donnelly
Larry Taylor
Valerie St. John
Denys Hawthorne
Bunty Garland
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Synopsis
A psychiatrist discusses mate swapping, warning that it is a game of increasing risk. To illustrate his point he presents several examples of the practice in documentary fashion. First, a young thrill-seeking wife receives a phone call, after which she is apparently kidnaped, taken to an isolated river bank, and ordered to swim naked to a houseboat to spend the night. In the next scene, Paul and Ellen, an outwardly happy couple, hope to solve their sexual problems with organized extra-marital sex. Once Ellen gets over her initial inhibitions, she becomes an enthusiastic participant in mate-swapping sessions. Another example shows a couple aboard a cabin cruiser for a weekend outing. They encounter difficulty when the clumsy advances of the host repel the guest's wife, and she has to fight off a rape. In an interview, a wife reveals that she became a prostitute through contacts in the mate-swapping club in order to solve her husband's financial problems. Although her husband was sent to prison for living off her earnings, she decides to continue working as a prostitute. In the final scene, Sheila, a childless wife, becomes repulsed by the mate-swapping parties, and one night she throws the guests out and suggests to her husband that a divorce might better satisfy their needs.
Director
Derek Ford
Cast
James Donnelly
Larry Taylor
Valerie St. John
Denys Hawthorne
Bunty Garland
Sandra Satchwith
Fiona Fraser
Joan Hayward
Stacy Harris
David Gell
Crew
Tony Anscombe
Laurie Barnett
Trevor Brooker
Dorak Film Services
Michael Eaton
John Fiddy
Derek Ford
Michael Francis
Barry Jacobs
Albert Lloyd
Stanley Long
Stanley Long
Richard Pope
Leslie Toye
Alan Vetter
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Released in Great Britain in 1970 as The Wife Swappers; running time: 86 min.
