Sam's Song

Jennifer Warren's debut.

In 1979, a re-cut version of this film 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 movie. In the new footage, a story of sorts was told about how Sammy was killed under mysterious circumstances while finishing editing a porno movie he made (in the original cut, he was actually a film editor working on a documentary about Richard M. 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 it. 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 (Jarred Mickey reprises his role from the original film), who is now a wealthy figure in the city, 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 his brother's murder.

Edited into The Swap (1979)