dir. ANDERSON, Lindsay] Sherwin, David If....
London: Memorial Enterprises, 1967
97pp. mimeographed screenplay bound in black (front) and red (rear) stiff paper wrappers, secured with three split pins to left edge. Title window to front wrapper. Wrappers a little worn and dog-eared, but a very well preserved copy.
SECOND DRAFT SCREENPLAY OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BRITISH FILMS OF THE 1960s. Closing film of the 1968 London Film Festival, and winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes the following year (beating its American counterpart, Easy Rider).
Anarchy in the UK, British New Wave style. In Lindsay Anderson’s allegory If.... Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is a student at a repressive, sadistic, emotionally stifling boarding school stuck in the nineteenth century (Britain). Mad as hell and disinclined to take it any more, Travis and his fellow students rise up in revolt, culminating in a livelier than usual parents’ day and one of the most famous final sequences in cinema.
If.... was immediately controversial, as it was meant to be. When it won the Palme D’Or at Cannes in 1969 the UK’s ambassador to France denounced the film as an insult to Britain — which at least showed that he’d understood it. Anderson’s peers found much to admire — Stanley Kubrick took one look at McDowell’s performance and cast him in his equally dystopian A Clockwork Orange (1971) — and the film has ranked high in Best British Film lists ever since its release.
The title page of this screenplay is marked ‘SECOND DRAFT SCRIPT’, is dated November 1967, and bears the name of Memorial Enterprises Ltd., the film production company set up
by Michael Medwin and Albert Finney. Memorial produced many of the key British films of the period, including Mike Leigh’s first film Bleak Moments (1971) and Stephen Frears’ debut Gumshoe (1971). (Frears worked as an uncredited assistant director on If....)
We can find no record of any other copy of a screenplay for If.... ever having been offered for sale.
dir. ANDERSON, Lindsay] Sherwin, David If....
London: Memorial Enterprises, 1967
97pp. mimeographed screenplay bound in black (front) and red (rear) stiff paper wrappers, secured with three split pins to left edge. Title window to front wrapper. Wrappers a little worn and dog-eared, but a very well preserved copy.
SECOND DRAFT SCREENPLAY OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BRITISH FILMS OF THE 1960s. Closing film of the 1968 London Film Festival, and winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes the following year (beating its American counterpart, Easy Rider).
Anarchy in the UK, British New Wave style. In Lindsay Anderson’s allegory If.... Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is a student at a repressive, sadistic, emotionally stifling boarding school stuck in the nineteenth century (Britain). Mad as hell and disinclined to take it any more, Travis and his fellow students rise up in revolt, culminating in a livelier than usual parents’ day and one of the most famous final sequences in cinema.
If.... was immediately controversial, as it was meant to be. When it won the Palme D’Or at Cannes in 1969 the UK’s ambassador to France denounced the film as an insult to Britain — which at least showed that he’d understood it. Anderson’s peers found much to admire — Stanley Kubrick took one look at McDowell’s performance and cast him in his equally dystopian A Clockwork Orange (1971) — and the film has ranked high in Best British Film lists ever since its release.
The title page of this screenplay is marked ‘SECOND DRAFT SCRIPT’, is dated November 1967, and bears the name of Memorial Enterprises Ltd., the film production company set up
by Michael Medwin and Albert Finney. Memorial produced many of the key British films of the period, including Mike Leigh’s first film Bleak Moments (1971) and Stephen Frears’ debut Gumshoe (1971). (Frears worked as an uncredited assistant director on If....)
We can find no record of any other copy of a screenplay for If.... ever having been offered for sale.
