Vinnie gets out of jail after serving 10 years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother - played by a young Robert de Niro.Vinnie gets out of jail after serving 10 years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother - played by a young Robert de Niro.Vinnie gets out of jail after serving 10 years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother - played by a young Robert de Niro.
Jarred Mickey
- Andrew Moore
- (as Jerry Micky)
Matt Greene
- Marge's Assistant
- (as Matthew Greene)
Robert De Niro
- Sam Nicoletti (1969 scenes)
- (archive footage)
Jennifer Warren
- Erica Moore (1969 scenes)
- (archive footage)
Terrayne Crawford
- Carole Moore (1969 scenes)
- (archive footage)
Martin J. Kelley
- Mitch Negroni (1969 scenes)
- (archive footage)
- (as Martin Kelley)
Jack Slater
- Party Guest
- (archive footage)
Phyllis Black
- Marge Negroni
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Viva
- Girl With the Hourglass
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAll the scenes with Robert De Niro are re-used shots and out-takes from Leondopoulos' first feature film, Sam's Song, used without De Niro's knowledge or permission. Reportedly De Niro was so angered by the release of The Swap that he wanted to take legal action against the film's production company, Cannon.
- Quotes
Vito Nicoletti: I pray to God, there is a God.
- Alternate versionsThe original Vestron Video VHS, as well as some later public domain VHS/DVD releases, feature an edited-for-TV print that removes the sex and nudity.
- ConnectionsEdited from Sam's Song (1969)
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Have footage, will profit
Incorporates scenes from the 1969 film "Sam's Song" of Robert DeNiro (as Sam) playing an aspiring director who meets a couple (Warren and Mickey) and an apparently single woman (Crawford) with whom he develops mutual bonds over one party-filled weekend at the beach. But when he's murdered, his fiercely protective brother (Charnotta) vows to avenge his death and ten years' later upon his release from gaol, he pieces together Sam's final days to seek retribution.
Neither DeNiro nor Warren - whose stars had risen in the intervening years between the 1969 footage and this 1979 re-edit - appear in the subsequently shot scenes, though naturally much is made of their names in the credits for marquee value. Both Mickey and Crawford reprise their roles, but Charnotta is essentially the central character here, his interrogations abetted by Lisa Blount as his frustrated chauffeur who once 'worked' for his brother. James Brown has a couple of scenes as a detective warning Charnotta not to dig too deeply into his brother's murder, and the sultry Sybil Danning playing the modern-day Warren role is entirely wasted sitting behind a desk.
Tedious attempt at a film noir, bereft of action and suspense, just a dreary series of one-on-one conversations interspersed with flashbacks of the melodramatic romantic quartet, making the most out of DeNiro's scant, unrelated footage. Though there's an occasional promise of something entertaining, it never eventuates. Even the film's climax is a non-event, hampered by a shoestring budget that teases, but fails to deliver.
Neither DeNiro nor Warren - whose stars had risen in the intervening years between the 1969 footage and this 1979 re-edit - appear in the subsequently shot scenes, though naturally much is made of their names in the credits for marquee value. Both Mickey and Crawford reprise their roles, but Charnotta is essentially the central character here, his interrogations abetted by Lisa Blount as his frustrated chauffeur who once 'worked' for his brother. James Brown has a couple of scenes as a detective warning Charnotta not to dig too deeply into his brother's murder, and the sultry Sybil Danning playing the modern-day Warren role is entirely wasted sitting behind a desk.
Tedious attempt at a film noir, bereft of action and suspense, just a dreary series of one-on-one conversations interspersed with flashbacks of the melodramatic romantic quartet, making the most out of DeNiro's scant, unrelated footage. Though there's an occasional promise of something entertaining, it never eventuates. Even the film's climax is a non-event, hampered by a shoestring budget that teases, but fails to deliver.
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