The System

After a frightened teenager is cut down by police bullets during a botched heist, a reporter investigates. The story leads him to prominent businessman John E. Merrick (Frank Lovejoy), the secret boss of the gambling ring that had the youth ensnared in a web of wrong-way bets. And now Merrick's carefully constructed world of family, upscale neighborhoods, country clubs and community respect begins to crumble around him. In this canny thriller, Lovejoy, the granite-jawed leading man in such '50s gems of paranoia as The Hitch-Hiker and Shack Out on 101, takes his tough-guy persona and gives it a gutsy twist, creating an unusual and provocative crime-caper protagonist: the crook with a conscience.

Director: Lewis Seiler
Producer: Sam Bischoff
Actor: Don Beddoe
Actor: Frank Lovejoy
Actor: Joan Weldon
Actor: Bob Arthur
Actor: Paul Picerni
Actor: Donald Beddoe
Actor: Frank Richards
Actor: Victor Perrin
Actor: Henry Corden
Actor: Howard Negley
Actor: Bruno VeSota
Actor: Jerome Cowan
Actor: Dan Seymour
Actor: Sarah Selby
Actor: Fay Roope
Actor: Richard Garrick
Actor: Paul Birch
Actor: William Vedder
Actor: Forbes Murray
Actor: Brian O'Hara
Actor: Chet Marshall
Actor: Michael Pierce
Actor: Ray Bennett
Actor: Forrest Burns
Actor: Elizabeth Flournoy
Actor: Sammy Finn
Actor: Ivan Browning
Actor: Charles Watts
Actor: Milton Wood
Actor: Grandon Rhodes
Actor: Paul Maxey
Actor: George Sherwood
Actor: Norman Field
Actor: Larry Blake
Actor: Frank Marlowe
Actor: Gail Ganley
Actor: Ernestine Barrier