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One man's dreams of success take him on a Byzantine journey through the various stations of the British class system in this politically charged black comedy from director Lndsy Andrson. Mick Travis (Mlclm McDwll) is an ambitious young man who is looking to get his foot on the first rung of the ladder of success by landing a job as a salesman. After the death of Imperial Coffee's leading drummer in the North, Travis' charm and enthusiasm so impresses manager Mr. Duff (Arthur Lwe) that he's given the job, and after some coaching from Gloria Rowe (Rachel Roberts), Travis sets out to find his fortune in the coffee trade. Travis' desire for success quickly sets him on a curious odyssey in which he happens upon a secret sex club for businessmen, finds himself the subject of random seductions by lonely women, is captured and tortured by military intelligence agents, submits to medical experiments at a bizarre private clinic, hitches a ride with a traveling rock band led by former Animals keyboardist Alan Price, falls in love with a beautiful young bohemian named Patricia (Hlen Mrren), goes to work for her father (Ralph Richardson), who happens to be a singularly corrupt political figure, and eventually lands in prison after he's implicated in a deal to sell chemical weapons to the Third World. As Mick's strange tale progresses, we periodically visit Price and his band in the recording studio or rehearsal hall, as they work on songs which serve as both mirror and counterpoint for Travis' progress. O Lcky Mn! was the second film in which Mlclm McDwll would portray Mick Travis for director Lndsy Andrsn, following If..., and preceding Britnna Hspital; the film's surreal undercurrent was reinforced by the casting, in which nearly all of the principle actors play two or three roles.
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!F 1968
British cinema has never been more inventive, subversive and downright confusing than it has been with If The film is played as a satire of institutionalisted English life, in which Mlclm McDwll's OTHER iconic anti-hero refuses to sit still and keep quiet in his boarding school which is being crippled under the weight of centuries of tradition. As the film continues and McDwll's character Mick Travis(who was to reappear in Lucky Mn! and Brtnnia Hspital) becomes more and more disillusioned with the state of affairs, the film becomes further and further removed from reality; are events real or is everything on screen the product of a pubescent mind? Andrsn's wonderfully mundane direction stops the fantastical from seeming too unreal, and vice versa. At one point a corpse is revealed to be in a drawer, then is resurrected briefly to accept an apology, before lying back down - totally insane, yet somehow chillingly real. If... could be the greatest modern British film - there are films that make you laugh and cry, and there are films that make you roar with laughter one second, the next chilling you to the bone. No one has ever come close to replicating the raw power and genius of this masterpiece.
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|3R!TT/-\NN!@ |-|0SP!T/-\|_ 1982
Mick Travis is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Brtnnia Hspitl, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It's the day when Her Royal Highness is to visit the hospital to inaugurate a new wing, where advanced (and sinister) scientific experiments led by Prof. Millar will take place. Everybody in the hospital, from the cooks who refuse to cook, to the painters who couldn't care less to get their job done, to an African cannibalistic dictator (a la Amin Dada) whom demonstrators want expelled from the hospital and tried, will contribute to making HRH's visit (and Mick Travis's life) a true nightmare.
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