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Mona (Patricia McNair) has just moved to a new town with her husband
Les (George Wolfe), but since he is working until late virtually every
day, she soon becomes a desperate housewife, and soon her understanding
neighbour Brooke (Monica Davis) sets her up with another man (Warwick
Christian) for some quick sex ... which only gives Mona a guilty
conscience though.
Brooke of course had some ulterior motives by helping Mona having an
affair: You see, brooke and her husband Pete (Judson Todd) run a
wifeswapping ring, and they have long cast an eye on their attractive
next-door couple. And once Mona is virtually devoured by guilt, Brooke has
no problems convincing her to not only join the ring but persuade her
husband to do so too. Interestingly enough, at first the whole
wifeswapping arrangement does wonders for Les and Mona's marriage, but
before long they start to get involved almost exclusively with Les'
businesspartner Wayne (Louis Waldon) and his wife Karen (Sheila Britt) ...
and doubts start to arise.
Then young Dick (Alix Reed), a former affair of Karen, finds out about
the wifeswapping and wants in together with his girlfriend Kathy (Joanna
Mills), who only agrees to join because she loves him - so the two pose as
a couple from out of town. Brooke accepts them in but sees through Dick's
ploy almost immediately - so she sets up a masque and sees to it that Dick
gets together with his own mother, all hell breaks loose,
naturally, and Dick, always the gentleman, puts the blame entirely on
Kathy. His mother, who never liked the girl in the first place, decides
now its her time for revenge, and has poor Kathy gangraped while she is
taking pictures.
Mona and Les are shocked by all of this, and they not only quite the
wifeswapping club pretty much immediately but also leave town for good
that very night ...
One of director Joe Sarno's sex dramas, somewhat similar in tone to his
earlier Sin in the Suburbs,
and just like in the earlier film, there is - despite the sensationalistic
and depraved subject - very little nudity in this one (after all these
were the mid 1960's, and erotic cinema still had to go a long way), but as
with most of his films, Sarno concentrates more on the drama aspect of the
story with the sex taking backseat - which doesn't mean the sexscenes
aren't erotic by any means. In all, like most of Sarno's films, The
Swap and How They Make It is diligently directed and beautifully
filmed - two things you don't often find in exploitation pictures from
that era - with most of the actors actually being up to their parts. Not a
classic, but quite enjoyable.
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