

if....
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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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $500K
- Box office
- $4.6M
- Language
- English
- rebellion
- england
- revolution
- private school
- british empire
- satire
- social satire
- rebellious youth
- gun violence
- british youth
- school shooting
- boys' boarding school
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalROriginally rated X9 Mar 1969
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical15Originally rated X19 Dec 1968
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1626 Sept 1969
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1611 Sept 1969
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1528 Nov 1969
ItalyIT
- Theatrical9 Oct 1969
JapanJP
- TheatricalPG122 Aug 1969
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1419 Dec 1968
PortugalPT
- Theatrical (limited)Cine-Teatro Gil Vicente (Cineclube de Barcelos)29 Oct 1978
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1519 Dec 1968
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if.... was released on 19 December 1968.
Audience reviews
2- C8/10
CRCulver
7/31/2018
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 punishment…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
11/25/2024
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 wi…
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