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| Title: The System Year: 1964 Rates: ****1/2 |
THE GIRL-GETTERS is really THE SYSTEM as the other title makes little sense — and although the British New Wave comedy/drama does begin like a horny-guys ensemble, it soon narrows solely onto Oliver Reed as Tinker, head of the wolf pack who "gets his" by falling in love with a rich model as cool, smooth, complicated and yes, beautiful as he is...
Director Michael Winner, before the Charles Bronson action flicks, began an eclectic partnership with Hammer villain Reed, and the first is their best: Winner provides a looser LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER vibe with similar satirical montage breaks; and Reed's Tinker... the local womanizing photographer... is all smiles and robust energy, hardly frowning or scowling before a long career playing frowning, scowling antagonists and anti-heroes.
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| The System aka The Girl-Getters |
Taking place during two weeks at a British vacation spot, there's a contained hanging-out all-night vibe as this might've influenced AMERICAN GRAFFITI, putting you right alongside the characters also including a female version of Tinker (Barbara Ferris); a sullen married woman (Ann Lynn); Tinker's newly engaged finally grown-up best friend (John Alterton); and a ditsy conquest (Julia Foster):..
All working and playing at this sunny retreat where tourists abound, and our boys use their titular SYSTEM to cover the entire area (girls and money), saving up for the approaching winter. And although they never reach that particular season, the foreboding chill is palpable, ironically after Reed's creative, genuine charm had almost completely thawed Jane Merrow's sublime dream-girl, Nicola, in what's more of a prolonged end of a party than a beginning, middle and end of a romantic summertime adventure — yet it's all that too.
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| Oliver Reed and Jane Merrow in THE SYSTEM |
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Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM
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Jane Merrow in THE SYSTEM
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Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with David Hemmings
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Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with Julia Foster
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Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with John Alderton
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Jane Merrow in THE SYSTEM
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Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with boss Harry Andrews
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| Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM |
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Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with Jeremy Burnham
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Tennis rich bully Jeremy Burnham in THE SYSTEM
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| Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM |
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Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with Barbara Ferris
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| Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM |
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Oliver Reed and Julia Foster in THE SYSTEM
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| Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with Julia Foster |
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| Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with Julia Foster |
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| Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with Julia Foster |
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| Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with Julia Foster |
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| Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with Julia Foster |
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| Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with Julia Foster |
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| Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM with Julia Foster |
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Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM
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Oliver Reed and Ann Lynn in THE SYSTEM
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Ann Lynn in THE SYSTEM
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Jennifer Tafler with John Alderman and Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM
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| Ann Lynn and Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM |
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Andrew Ray and David Hemmings with Ray's real-life wife Susan Burnet as Jasmine the train babe
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| Jane Merrow in the coveted Buick Skylark from The System of Reed's POV |
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| Oliver Reed falling in THE SYSTEM |
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| Oliver Reed as Tinker prepares for Saturday Night in THE SYSTEM |
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Jane Merrow and Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM
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Oliver Reed's best man's toast in THE SYSTEM
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| Jennifer Tafler and John Alderton in THE SYSTEM |
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| Newlyweds Jennifer Tafler and John Alderton in THE SYSTEM |
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Oliver Reed as Tinker in THE SYSTEM
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Like next year's The Party's Over Ann Lynn sulks over Oliver Reed THE SYSTEM
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Michael Winner had Oliver Reed really slap Jane Merrow THE SYSTEM
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| Iain Gregory and Barbara Ferris in THE SYSTEM |
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Oliver Reed attempts an "absolutely darling" tennis match in THE SYSTEM
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| Clive Colin Bowler and Andrew Ray leave John Porter Davison w/ the Rolls in THE SYSTEM |
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| Clive Colin Bowler and Andrew Ray unsuccessfully flirt with Dora Reisser and Talitha Pol in THE SYSTEM |
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| But minutes later Germans Dora Reisser and Talitha Pol digging Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM |
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Possum-faced director Michael Winner doing his Hitchcock cameo in THE SYSTEM, right?
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David Hemmings with Andrew Ray and Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM
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Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM picture-taking montage
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| Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM picture-taking montage |
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| Jennifer Tafler with John Alderman and Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM |
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| Jennifer Tafler with John Alderman and Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM |
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Oliver Reed's see-through-seduction in THE SYSTEM
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Jane Merrow sees through the seduction of THE SYSTEM
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| Jennifer Tafler with John Alderman and Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM |
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| "And along came the backbird" THE SYSTEM Oliver Reed, David Hemmings, Andrew Ray |
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| Oliver Reed gets a number from partner-in-crime Barbara Ferris THE SYSTEM |
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Oliver Reed listening to Tony Kinsey in THE SYSTEM with Julia Foster
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Julia Foster in Michael Winner's THE SYSTEM aka The Girl-Getters
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| Oliver Reed hanging out with Julia Foster in THE SYSTEM aka The Girl-Getters |
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| Clive Colin Bowler, John Alderton and Andrew Ray in THE SYSTEM |
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| A winking Oliver Reed as Tinker in THE SYSTEM |
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| Oliver Reed in Michael Winner's THE SYSTEM aka The Girl-Getters |
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Ann Lynn smitten with an unreceptive Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM
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In 1964, Ann Lynn's smitten with an unreceptive Oliver Reed in THE PARTY'S OVER
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| Back to poor Ann. still smitten but now with a drunk thus semi-receptive Reed in THE SYSTEM |
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British character-actor Harry Anders as Oliver Reed's boss in THE SYSTEM
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Iain Gregory, Oliver Reed, John Porter-Davison, Andrew Ray fills in new guy David Hemmings for THE SYSTEM
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| Cool rich girl Pauline Munro as Sylvie in THE SYSTEM aka THE GIRL-GETTERS |
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Oliver Reed as Tinker in THE SYSTEM
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| Oliver Reed as Tinker in THE SYSTEM |
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| Oliver Reed as Tinker in THE SYSTEM |
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| "Nein Nein Fraulein" Oliver Reed as Tinker in THE SYSTEM |
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| THE SYSTEM starlet Talitha Pol wed Paul Getty and died a billionaire 31 yr old heroin addict |
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Oliver Reed with Talitha Pol and Andrew Ray in THE SYSTEM
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Andrew Ray with Dora Reisser and Talitha Pol in THE SYSTEM
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| David Hemmings with Andrew Ray and Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM |
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| But minutes later Germans Dora Reisser and Talitha Pol digging Oliver Reed in THE SYSTEM |
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Andrew Ray, Iain Gregory, John Porter-Davison, Clive Colin Bolwer & David Hemmings The System
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| Andrew Ray, Iain Gregory, John Porter-Davison, Clive Colin Bolwer, Tabitha Pol, David Hemmings |
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Gwendolyn Watts in THE SYSTEM
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Gwendolyn Watts in THE SYSTEM with Oliver Reed & John Alderton
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| Gwendolyn Watts in THE SYSTEM with Oliver Reed & John Alderton |
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| Gwendolyn Watts in THE SYSTEM with Oliver Reed & John Alderton |
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| Michael Winner's THE SYSTEM with Oliver Reed & Guy Doleman |
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