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Oliver Reed (Actor), Jane Merrow (Actor), Michael Winner (Director) Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Oliver Reed, Jane Merrow
  • Directors: Michael Winner
  • Format: Mono, PAL, Black & White, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Odeon Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 21 July 2008
  • Run Time: 87 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001ANNV48
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The System is set in a British seaside village where the local young men mingle among the summer's tourists in search of sexual conquests. The group's leader, Tinker (Oliver Reed), aims to entrap a fashion model (Jane Merrow) from a well-to-do family, but he finds himself unexpectedly falling in love. With the tables turned, Tinker begins to see that maybe it's not the tourists who are ebing used in these sexual games. A gem of a film, which was directed by Michael Winner.

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I first saw this film when it was released (in 1964) and it had a profound effect on me then, imagine my surprise when I saw it in the middle of the night on TV a few days ago and it hasn't lost any of it's freshness. Oliver Reed is brilliant, as he always was before he took to the bottle, and the idea of the girl turning the tables on the cock-sure man is executed magnificently. Furthermore the quote that I remember for forty years still rang true (Harry Andrews, a photographer, says "we're here to make memories" and Oliver Reed's reply "I thought we were here to make money"). People may laugh at Michale Winner now but this was good, very good. Even today. --www.imdb.com

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5.0 out of 5 starsBest of British - Well nearly - Well done
By A. W. Wilson TOP 500 REVIEWER on 26 Feb. 2012
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I wholeheartedly agree with DH Dixon (tho I am a couple of years late). I think this was one of Winner's best films. Full of life and vigour, but tinged with genuine pathos, and well acted. Personally I think this is possibly Reed's finest performence - he is restrained yet believable in his moodiness and violent streak. As for the ladies - Winner draws out terrific performences from them all..Jane Merrow, young as she was, shows great promise, Barbara Ferris - sexy and vulnerable, Julia Foster, a bit over written perhaps, but very good, and, my own favourite, Ann Lynn, so good as an unhappy woman married to the resident Theatre Comedian. The rest of the young cast are given and take every oportunity to show they have better things to come (John Alderton,David Hemmings,Pauline Munro, and the very youthful!! Harry Andrews, terrific in a small part). The sondtrack throbs with 6o's music (The Searchers) and newsreel of the time is cleverly inserted at various points to add atmosphere. The 16.9 print is excellent, and there is a most useful booklet. Also at last ODEON have included a very full cast list. Thankyou. I don't give 5 stars very often but I do so here because I just enjoyed every minute, but to be a bit cautious, this may be because of my age and I lived thru times like the ones shown (tho sadly not quite so exciting, and the girls were perhaps not so attractive).
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5.0 out of 5 starsOne of Winner's winners
By DH Dixon on 17 Sept. 2008
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I have to disagree with the other reviewers, this has always been a favourite film. Jane Merrow is terrific, so is Oliver Reed, and it also features Harry Andrews. The black and white photography is excellent and I like the atmosphere and period feel very much. The seaside setting is very attractive. This film is immaculate, and with a theme song by The Searchers, where does it fail? I would rank this next to Death Wish and The Jokers as one of Michael Winner's best films.
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3.0 out of 5 starsAn interesting curate's egg
By Lou Knee on 26 Sept. 2009
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The main reason I bought this was to see an early Reed starring movie, as my favourite one, The Jokers still hasn't come out on dvd. I vaguely remembered watching The System and thinking it was okay. Having just watched it again, as a film entertainment, I still think it is okay and no more really. However for social history observers, this film is a lot better than okay. It looks incredibly dated now, but its theme is very relevant to the era it was made in. It brings home probably even more than Alfie and Georgy Girl the conflict between sexual freedom and the natural desire to have something more meaningful, and it shows as much as A Kind of Loving or Saturday Night and Sunday Morning the dangers of sexual freedom in a society where having kids out of wedlock was a major no no. So, sociologically this film is quite fascinating. It looks quite quaint in places when it's obviously showing its most daring scenes, but these were more innocent times. For 1964 general release this really was daring.

Some of the director's more gimmicky touches, a sort of contempoary fashion for the jokey, flashy visual youth culturey scenes ala Richard Lester did make me wince, but that was the sort of film the studios wanted then (The Beatles have a lot to answer for). Reed's performance is quite interesting for fans of his, and you can't say the role doesn't suit him. There's definitely a larger than life quality to him already in this film, and a brooding presence. Although I'm very glad I bought it, as pure movie entertainment it is not brilliant, but alright, hence the lowish 3.5 star grading.
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4.0 out of 5 starsWinner's early winner
By Richard Bowden on 31 Aug. 2009
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Given director Michael Winner's critical reputation today, it's hard to remember that he, too, once enjoyed a moment in the sun. For a brief period at the start of the 1960s, the director received good reviews on both side of the Atlantic, most especially from the American critics impressed by his ability to adapt very contemporary subject matter and make it appeal to an international youth audience. In particular, The System, followed in turn by The Jokers (1966), and then I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), attracted attention. All three films starred Oliver Reed, cast after Winner had spotted the potential of the actor who had previously appeared in Hammer horror films.

Overshadowed by the slackness and crudity of some of his later, more ambitious projects, these early titles are overlooked. But for The System, at the time of its release, Newsweek praised Winner as the unheralded director of a "consistently intelligent and often brilliant low-budget import." Seen today it can be identified as part of a group of films that have interesting anticipations of each other within British cinema. In the film Reed plays 'Tinker' a seaside photographer, the charismatic leader of a group of young men seeking sexual conquest at the seaside.

The System, unsubtly re-titled The Girl-Getters for the USA, was felt to be controversial in subject matter at the time, although by today's standards it is pretty mild. Reed had earlier appeared as a tearaway in another resort-set movie, Losey's cult item The Damned (1961); in the present film it is almost as if the young thug from the previous story has moved on a little to a newly precarious living, at least as far as he might be able to.Read more ›
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