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if....

Name: if....
Genre: Drama
Released: 1968-12-19
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 7.057

★ 7,1 /10 (409 Votes)

1968 EN 112 min

Overview

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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Release date

19/12/1968

Votes

409

Popularity

1.6

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Genres

Drama

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

112 min

Budget

$500,000

Revenue

$4,600,000

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David Wood

Johnny Knightly

Richard Warwick

Wallace

Christine Noonan

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Rupert Webster

Bobby Phillips

Robert Swann

Rowntree

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Hugh Thomas

Denson

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Michael Cadman

Fortinbras

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Peter Sproule

Barnes

Peter Jeffrey

Headmaster

Anthony Nicholls

General Denson

Arthur Lowe

Mr. Kemp

Mona Washbourne

Matron

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Mary MacLeod

Mrs. Kemp

Geoffrey Chater

Chaplain

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Ben Aris

John Thomas

Graham Crowden

History Master

Charles Lloyd Pack

Classics Master

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Guy Ross

Stephens

Robin Askwith

Keating

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Richard Everett

Pussy Graves

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Philip Bagenal

Peanuts

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Nicholas Page

Cox

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Robert Yetzes

Fisher

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David Griffin

Willens

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Graham Sharman

Van Eyssen

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Richard Tombleson

Baird

Robin Davies

Machin

Brian Pettifer

Biles

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Michael Newport

Brunning

Charles Sturridge

Markland

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Sean Bury

Jute

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Martin Beaumont

Hunter

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Ellis Dale

Motorcycle Salesman (uncredited)

John Garrie

Music Master (uncredited)

Tommy Godfrey

School Porter (uncredited)

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Peter Jaques

Schoolmaster (uncredited)

Simon Ward

Schoolboy (uncredited)

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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 arbitrary punishments given out by senior boys, headed by the sinister Rowntree (Robert Swann) and the distant school officials. This is all in an environment of bizarre old rituals, Latin refrains, a…

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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 interest in conforming with the expectations of the establishment. Amidst this culture of bully or be bullied, there is also some military training provided and it's this that sparks an idea of a more dire…

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