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Film details
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Featuring
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Countries
United Kingdom USA
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Year
1968
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Crusaders Working
Introduction
“Has the unique quality of being about every public school there ever was; we all, if Old Boys, see it in our own school – tribute of a sort, perhaps, to the System.”
Basil Wright, The Long View, 1974
At a traditional English public school, Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is a romantic and a rebel, intent on identifying with those from whom he is secluded – women, workers, the marginalised. With his friends Johnny and Wallace, he resists the school’s rituals and – this being the year of the Paris May ‘68 riots – plots violent revolution.
Shot by cinematographer Miroslav Ondrícek, fresh from work with Milos Forman in his native Czechoslovakia, If.... alternates between monochrome and colour sequences seemingly at random, obscuring the line between fantasy and reality while underscoring the surreal archaism of the public-school setting. The school’s teaching staff – including headmaster Peter Jeffrey, Arthur Lowe and Graham Crowden – make up a parade of slyly satirised establishment figures.
Malcolm McDowell played Mick Travis twice more for Lindsay Anderson in two semi-sequels written by If.... writer David Sherwin: O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Mick Travis (Crusaders)
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Johnny (Crusaders)
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Wallace (Crusaders)
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the girl (Crusaders)
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Bobby Philips (Crusaders)
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Rowntree (Whips)
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Denson (Whips)
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Fortinbras (Whips)
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Barnes (Whips)
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headmaster (Staff)
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General Denson (Staff)
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Mr Kemp (Staff)
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matron (Staff)
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Mrs Kemp (Staff)
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chaplain (Staff)
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John Thomas (Staff)
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history master (Staff)
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classics master (Staff)
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Stephans (Seniors)
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Keating (Seniors)
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Pussy Graves (Seniors)
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Peanuts (Seniors)
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Cox (Seniors)
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Fisher (Seniors)
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Willens (Seniors)
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Van Eyssen (Seniors)
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Baird (Seniors)
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Machin (Juniors)
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Biles (Juniors)
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Brunning (Juniors)
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Markland (Juniors)
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Jute (Juniors)
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Hunter (Juniors)
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[music master (Staff)]
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[school porter (Staff)]
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[salesman (Staff)]
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Credits
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Unknown:
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©
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Producer
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[Production Secretary]
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Assistant to the Director
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Continuity
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Casting Director
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Screenplay
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Based on the original script by
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Based on the original script by
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Director of Photography
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Cameraman
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Camera Operator
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Camera Assistant
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Electrics Supervisor
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[Explosions]
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Editor
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Assistant Editor
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Construction Manager
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Sound Recording
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Transportation
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