The System (Lewis Seiler, 1953)
IMDb
Crime | Film-Noir
Writing credits: Jo Eisinger (writer); Edith Grafton & Samuel Grafton (story "Investigation")
Cast:
Frank Lovejoy ... John E. 'Johnny' Merrick
Joan Weldon ... Felice Stuart
Robert Arthur ... Rex Merrick
Paul Picerni ... David Wiley
Don Beddoe ... Jerry Allen (as Donald Beddoe)
Jerome Cowan ... Barry X. Brady
Dan Seymour ... Mr. Marty
Sarah Selby ... Liz Allen
Fay Roope ... Roger Stuart
Frank Richards ... Charley, Merrick's Butler
Vic Perrin ... Little Harry Goubenek (as Victor Perrin)
Henry Corden ... Specs alias Marty Kubek
Howard Negley ... Senator Richard Ketteridge
Alan Gordon ... Big Reuben (as Al Gordon)
Bruno VeSota ... Angelo Bruno (as Bruno Ve Sota)
Richard Garrick ... Frank Tasker
[quote]Gambler John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is the head of a bookie syndicate and the newspaper is crusading against him and the rackets, primarily because Merrick is in love with Felice Stuart (Joan Weldon), daughter of the newspaper publisher who can not break up the romance through persuasion. A senate committee investigating crime gets involved, the racketeers, other than Merrick who is a "nice guy", strike back and kill a reporter, and Merrick's own son, Jerry Merrick (Robert Arthur), commits suicide. Merrick, to his own disadvantage, helps bring down the syndicate. Since it is in black-and-white-, deals with crime and was an American-made film, some will call it "film noir" since that seems to be the current guidelines for putting a film in that, at one time limited-and-defined genre. It ain't, and neither are most of the others currently so classified.[/quote][quote]The System was one of several "exposé" films inspired by the Kefauver crime committee. The title refers to the manner in which a major gambling syndicate can so insinuate itself in "respectable" business circles that it becomes virtually impossible for justice to prevail. Big-city syndicate head John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is targeted for investigation by a crusading newspaper. The publisher (Fay Roope) uses this opportunity as a means to squelch his daughter's (Joan Weldon) romance with the unscrupulous Merrick. Called to testify before a crime commission, Merrick at first invokes the Fifth Amendment. But a series of crushing personal blows, coupled with the realization that his fellow hoods have left him to twist slowly in the wind, leads to an abrupt change of heart on the witness stand. The System boasts one of the most impressive supporting casts in any 1953 film, including virtually every actor who's ever played a thug or lowlife: Dan Seymour, Frank Richards, Vic Perrin, Henry Corden, Bruno VeSota, etc. etc. etc.[/quote]
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IMDb
Crime | Film-Noir
Writing credits: Jo Eisinger (writer); Edith Grafton & Samuel Grafton (story "Investigation")
Cast:
Frank Lovejoy ... John E. 'Johnny' Merrick
Joan Weldon ... Felice Stuart
Robert Arthur ... Rex Merrick
Paul Picerni ... David Wiley
Don Beddoe ... Jerry Allen (as Donald Beddoe)
Jerome Cowan ... Barry X. Brady
Dan Seymour ... Mr. Marty
Sarah Selby ... Liz Allen
Fay Roope ... Roger Stuart
Frank Richards ... Charley, Merrick's Butler
Vic Perrin ... Little Harry Goubenek (as Victor Perrin)
Henry Corden ... Specs alias Marty Kubek
Howard Negley ... Senator Richard Ketteridge
Alan Gordon ... Big Reuben (as Al Gordon)
Bruno VeSota ... Angelo Bruno (as Bruno Ve Sota)
Richard Garrick ... Frank Tasker
[quote]Gambler John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is the head of a bookie syndicate and the newspaper is crusading against him and the rackets, primarily because Merrick is in love with Felice Stuart (Joan Weldon), daughter of the newspaper publisher who can not break up the romance through persuasion. A senate committee investigating crime gets involved, the racketeers, other than Merrick who is a "nice guy", strike back and kill a reporter, and Merrick's own son, Jerry Merrick (Robert Arthur), commits suicide. Merrick, to his own disadvantage, helps bring down the syndicate. Since it is in black-and-white-, deals with crime and was an American-made film, some will call it "film noir" since that seems to be the current guidelines for putting a film in that, at one time limited-and-defined genre. It ain't, and neither are most of the others currently so classified.[/quote][quote]The System was one of several "exposé" films inspired by the Kefauver crime committee. The title refers to the manner in which a major gambling syndicate can so insinuate itself in "respectable" business circles that it becomes virtually impossible for justice to prevail. Big-city syndicate head John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is targeted for investigation by a crusading newspaper. The publisher (Fay Roope) uses this opportunity as a means to squelch his daughter's (Joan Weldon) romance with the unscrupulous Merrick. Called to testify before a crime commission, Merrick at first invokes the Fifth Amendment. But a series of crushing personal blows, coupled with the realization that his fellow hoods have left him to twist slowly in the wind, leads to an abrupt change of heart on the witness stand. The System boasts one of the most impressive supporting casts in any 1953 film, including virtually every actor who's ever played a thug or lowlife: Dan Seymour, Frank Richards, Vic Perrin, Henry Corden, Bruno VeSota, etc. etc. etc.[/quote]
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