if.... (1968)
if.... (1968)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Malcolm McDowell
Mick - Crusader
David Wood
Johnny - Crusader
Richard Warwick
Wallace - Crusader
Christine Noonan
The Girl - Crusader
Rupert Webster
Bobby Philips - Crusader
Robert Swann
Rowntree - Whip
Hugh Thomas
Denson - Whip
Michael Cadman
Fortinbras - Whip
Peter Sproule
Barnes - Whip
Peter Jeffrey
Headmaster - Staff
Anthony Nicholls
General Denson
Arthur Lowe
Mr. Kemp
Lindsay Anderson
Director
David Sherwin
Writer
Mona Washbourne
Matron
Mary MacLeod
Mrs. Kemp
John Howlett
Writer
Geoffrey Chater
Chaplain
Ben Aris
John Thomas
Michael Medwin
Producer
Marc Wilkinson
Composer
Graham Crowden
History Master
Miroslav Ondříček
Cinematographer
Charles Lloyd Pack
Classics Master
Guy Ross
Stephens
David Gladwell
Editor
Miriam Brickman
CastingDirector
Robin Askwith
Keating
Jocelyn Herbert
ProductionDesigner
Richard Everett
Pussy Graves
Philip Bagenal
Peanuts
Nicholas Page
Cox
Robert Yetzes
Fisher
David Griffin
Willens
Graham Sharman
Van Eyssen
Richard Tombleson
Baird
Robin Davies
Machin
Brian Pettifer
Biles
Michael Newport
Brunning
Charles Sturridge
Markland
Sean Bury
Jute
Martin Beaumont
Hunter
Ellis Dale
Motorcycle Salesman (uncredited)
John Garrie
Music Master (uncredited)
Tommy Godfrey
School Porter (uncredited)
Peter Jaques
Schoolmaster (uncredited)
Simon Ward
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Albert Finney
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 19, 1968
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 52m
Content RatingR
Box Office$500,000
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Wiki.
If.... (stylised in lowercase) is a 1968 British satirical drama film produced and directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis, and also starring Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, David Wood, and Robert Swann. A satire of English public school life, the film follows a group of pupils who stage a savage insurrection at a boys' boarding school. The film was the subject of controversy at the time of its release, receiving an X certificate for its depictions of violence.
If.... won the Palme d'Or at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1999, the British Film Institute named it the 12th greatest British film of the 20th century; in 2004, the magazine Total Film named it the 16th greatest British film of all time. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine ranked it the 9th best British film ever.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 90% approval rating based on 49 reviews, with an average score of 7.9/10. According to the site's critical consensus, "Incendiary, subversive, and darkly humorous, If.... is a landmark of British countercultural cinema."