if....

Which side will you be on?

Sinopse

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.

7.1
1968
Released
1h 52m

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$500,000.00

Revenue

$4,600,000.00

Keywords

#rebellion
#england
#revolution
#private school
#british empire
#satire
#social satire
#rebellious youth
#gun violence
#british youth
#school shooting
#boys' boarding school
#british school system
#radical politics
#free cinema
#student revolt
#youth revolts
#university school

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Reviews

@Geronimo1967about 1 year ago

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

@CRCulverover 7 years ago

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