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if....

1968 112 min ★ 7.0 Drama

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.

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Cast

Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell

Mick Travis

David Wood

David Wood

Johnny Knightly

Richard Warwick

Richard Warwick

Wallace

Christine Noonan

Christine Noonan

The Girl

Rupert Webster

Bobby Phillips

Robert Swann

Robert Swann

Rowntree

Hugh Thomas

Denson

Michael Cadman

Fortinbras

Peter Sproule

Barnes

Peter Jeffrey

Peter Jeffrey

Headmaster

Details

Director

Lindsay Anderson

Screenplay

David Sherwin

Tagline

"Which side will you be on?"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$500,000

Revenue

$4,600,000

Production

Memorial Enterprises

Reviews

C

CRCulver

July 31, 2018

★ 8/10

Released in 1968, directed by Lindsay Anderson with a screenplay by David Sherwin, <i>If....</i> is a story of three non-conformist schoolboys played by Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick and David Wood, who plot revenge. Organized as a series of tableaux separated by title cards, IF... spends its first half depicting the harsh rules that these boys live under at their elite public school, and the ...

C

CinemaSerf

November 25, 2024

★ 7/10

At a posh private school there is an hierarchy that sees the housemaster exercise rather arbitrary authority through his three "whips". It's usually the younger pupils they like to terrorise, but at this school there are three older men who attract their attention. There's "Mick" (Malcolm McDowell), "Johnny" (David Wood) and "Wallace" (Richard Warwick) and led by the former, they have little inter...

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