Within the walls of an exclusive boarding school, a rigid system dictates power, with housemasters wielding authority in unpredictable ways through their chosen enforcers. While younger students often become targets, the focus shifts to three older boys who defy convention: "Mick" (Malcolm McDowell), "Johnny" (David Wood), and "Wallace" (Richard Warwick). Under Mick’s leadership, they show little regard for instituti…

Lindsay Anderson’s 1968 film, *If…*, written by David Sherwin, centers on three schoolboys—Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, and David Wood—who plan acts of retribution. The movie unfolds as a sequence of scenes separated by title cards, initially illustrating the strict regulations governing these boys at their prestigious school and the arbitrary consequences imposed by older students, led by Robert Swann’s menaci…