If....

Lindsay Anderson''s film if...(1968), starring Malcolm McDowell as a schoolboy who leads a guerilla insurgence, imagines how repression, conformity, and fusty ritual at an English public school could lead to anarchy and bloody revolt. Its title is a sardonic nod to Rudyard Kipling''s most famous poem, and its story a radical updating of Kipling''s 1899 story ''Stalky and Co.,'' in which prankish r...