The System (1964)

The System: Directed by Michael Winner. With Oliver Reed, Jane Merrow, Barbara Ferris, Harry Andrews. In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests. Near the end of one summer, the leader of the group, Tinker, a strolling photographer, aims to conquer a fashion model from a well-to-do family, but he finds himself unexpectedly falling in love. The tables thus turned, Tinker begins to see that maybe it’s not the tourists who are being used in these sexual games.

“Whenever you question the quality of both Michael Winner and the late Oliver Reedu0026#39;s films in recent years donu0026#39;t judge them until you go back to the sixties where they both started out.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHere is a very low budget and rarely seen little movie that shows both the potential of both star and director.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMade two years before Michael Caineu0026#39;s ALFIE, THE SYSTEM takes a look at similar themes, having a good time while youu0026#39;re young and pulling birds. It is of course seen through the eyes of the male perspective as Ollie and pals Andrew Ray, John Alderton and David Hemmings go on a sexual rampage in a seaside town of Britain.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWinner helped launch the career of Oliver Reed and they worked together again several times throughout the sixties but this early piece of nostalgic British cinema is worth a look especially if you were a teenager in the early sixties.”