if.... (1969)

Movie"Which side will you be on?"
Audience Score
71
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R 1 hr 52 minMar 9th, 1969DramaMick Travis Collection PosterPart of Mick Travis Collection
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
StarringMalcolm McDowellDavid WoodRichard Warwick
DirectorLindsay Anderson
WriterJohn Howlett

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:March 9th, 1969
On DVD & Blu-ray:June 19th, 2007 - Buy DVD
Movie Box Office Gross:$500,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Roy Baird
Production Companies:Paramount Pictures, Memorial Enterprises
Movie Tags:
satireenglandrevolutionsocial satirerebellionschool shootinggun violencerebellious youthbritish empireprivate school

Mick Travis Collection

In the powder-keg political environment of the late sixties, Lindsay Anderson launched a pop-culture Molotov cocktail into British cinemas with his stunningly subversive If…., an anarchic vision of rebellion at a British boarding school starring Malcolm McDowell as the everyman turned guerrilla revolutionary Mick Travis. In two subsequent films—the freewheeling anti-establishment epic O Lucky Man! and the divisive gonzo comedy Britannia Hospital—Anderson and McDowell continued to trace the story of the Travis character and his outlandish adventures in a through-the-looking-glass England.