aka THE SYSTEM. Michael Winner's early film is probably his best. A group of young Brits (mostly men, but a few women as well) play the field at a beach resort, looking for sex and occasionally for real love. Oliver Reed is Tinker, a seaside shutterbug/romeo who's horrified to find that he might actually be falling in love. This is very much a film of its time & place, when little related to sex could really be examined on the screen. Winner & screenwriter Peter Draper successfully weave together several stories, some charming, some sad and a lot of it very funny. The cinematography by Nicholas Roeg is great and the acting is all first rate. Reed commands the screen in this early role & Jane Merrow, Barbara Ferris, and a very young David Hemmings are in it too. Harry Andrews plays Reed's strict but somehow infinitely patient boss. The catchy theme song is by The Searchers.
Review of The Girl-Getters
