In 1971, he sent a chill through cinema audiences and the censors as the delinquent Alex in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (YPN, 14-20 May, p16). But three years earlier, he began his career as a screen rebel by starring as public schoolboy Mick Travis, who lives out his fantasies of revenge against his teachers.
The first in a Mick Travis trilogy directed by Anderson, and starring McDowell, If ... is about hitting out against the establishment. And what says "establishment" better than an English public school? The film had a great impact on its release, not least on teenagers who loved its subversive tone. Unsurprisingly, many parents and teachers felt differently, though.
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