Title of film : If....
Director Name : Lindsay Anderson
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Producer : Lindsay Anderson,Michael Medwin
Editor : David Gladwell
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Synopsis : Teenage rebel Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) returns to his upper-crust English public school, caught between the sadistic older boys known as the Whips and the first-year students, known as Scum, who are forced to do their bidding. The petty thefts and anti-social behavior of Travis and his two henchmen, Johnny (David Wood) and Wallace (Richard Warwick), soon attract the attention of both the Whips and the school's out-of-touch administration, and lead to an unexpected showdown.
Director Bio : Lindsay Anderson, in full Lindsay Gordon Anderson, (born April 17, 1923, Bangalore, India—died August 30, 1994, near Angouleme, France), English critic and stage and film director who was a member of the Free Cinema and Angry Young Men movements. Anderson’s first feature-length motion picture, This Sporting Life (1963), adapted by the English writer David Storey from his novel, is about a brutish miner who succeeds as a professional rugby player but who fails in love. The film is a classic of the British social realist cinema of the 1960s. Anderson directed productions at the Royal Court and other theatres before making his next film, If… (1968), in which three English students violently rebel against the conformity and social hypocrisy of their boarding school. Anderson then directed the premieres of Storey’s plays In Celebration (1969), The Contractor (1969), Home (1970), and The Changing Room (1971). His subsequent films included O Lucky Man! (1973), In Celebration (1974), Britannia Hospital (1982), and The Whales of August (1987). His later stage productions included Storey’s The March on Russia (1989).
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