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if....
British cinema poster
Directed by	Lindsay Anderson
Produced by	Lindsay Anderson Michael Medwin
Screenplay by	David Sherwin
Story by	David Sherwin John Howlett
Starring	Malcolm McDowell Richard Warwick Christine Noonan David Wood Robert Swann Peter Jeffrey
Music by	Marc Wilkinson
Cinematography	Miroslav Ondrícek
Edited by	David Gladwell
Production company	Memorial Enterprises
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	19 December 1968 (1968-12-19) (UK)
Running time	111 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$500,000
Box office	$2.3 million (rentals)

if.... is a 1968 British drama film produced and directed by Lindsay Anderson satirising English private school life. Famous for its depiction of a savage insurrection at a fictitious boys' boarding school, the X certificate film was made at the time of the May 1968 protests in France by a director who was strongly associated with the 1960s counterculture.

The film stars Malcolm McDowell in his first screen role and his first appearance as Anderson's "everyman" character Mick Travis. Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, David Wood, and Robert Swann also star.

if.... won the Palme d'Or at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. In 1999, the British Film Institute named it the 12th greatest British film of the 20th Century; in 2004, the magazine Total Film named it the 16th greatest British film of all time. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine ranked it the 9th best British film ever.

Set in a traditional British private school in the late 1960s, the film opens as the pupils return for a new term. Mick Travis, Wallace, and Johnny are three non-conformist boys in the lower sixth form, their penultimate year. They are watched and persecuted by the "Whips", upper sixth formers given authority as prefects over the other boys. The junior boys are made to act as personal servants for the Whips, who discuss them as sex objects.