The Wife Swappers is a 1970

1970 in film

The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....

 drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 film by British sexploitation

Sexploitation

Sexploitation, or "sex-exploitation", describes a class of independently produced, low-budget feature films generally associated with the 1960s and serving largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films...

 director Derek Ford

Derek Ford

Derek Ford was an English film director and writer, most famous for sexploitation films such as The Wife Swappers Keep it Up Jack! Sex Express , and What's up Superdoc! .Ford began as a writer in collaboration with his brother Donald Ford , originally...

. The film was directed and written by Derek Ford

Derek Ford

Derek Ford was an English film director and writer, most famous for sexploitation films such as The Wife Swappers Keep it Up Jack! Sex Express , and What's up Superdoc! .Ford began as a writer in collaboration with his brother Donald Ford , originally...

, and stars James Donnelly

James Donnelly

The Most Reverend Dr. James Donnelly was Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher in Ireland....

, Larry Taylor, and Valerie St. John.

The film was released on UK DVD in January 2007 on the Slam Dunk Media Label (the US DVD release on the Jeff films label is an unauthorized bootleg.)

Memorable Quotes

• Eminent London Psychiatrist "to seek a meaningful relationship within group-sex activity is to bet on a three legged horse"
• Sheila (Bunty Garland) “a woman isn't a sex machine she's a child bearer”.
• Sheila (Bunty Garland) “animals, animals all of you, you've taken the act of love and dirtied it”
• Vox Pop interviewee “well, I’d like to swap my wife for a new motor”

Trivia

Pornographer John Jesnor Lindsay

John Jesnor Lindsay

John Jesnor Lindsay is a Scottish former photographer who turned to the more lucrative trade of making blue movies during the late 60s and all the way through the 70s. A former student of the Glasgow School of Art, Lindsay had begun his career as a photojournalist with limited financial success...

was the stills photographer on the film and can (accidentally?) be seen in the film taking stills during the second version of the scene in which a woman in kidnapped on Westminster Bridge.