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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.

Cast

Malcolm McDowell

as Mick Travis

David Wood

as Johnny Knightly

Richard Warwick

as Wallace

Christine Noonan

as The Girl

Rupert Webster

as Bobby Phillips

Robert Swann

as Rowntree

Hugh Thomas

as Denson

Michael Cadman

as Fortinbras

Peter Sproule

as Barnes

Peter Jeffrey

as Headmaster

Reviews

CRCulver

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 fi...

CinemaSerf

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),...

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