Lindsay Anderson’s Mick Travis Trilogy (Criterion Channel Teaser)

In the powder-keg political environment of the late sixties, Lindsay Anderson launched a pop-culture Molotov cocktail into British cinemas with his stunningly subversive IF…., an anarchic vision of rebellion at a British boarding school starring Malcolm McDowell as the everyman turned guerilla revolutionary Mick Travis. In two subsequent films—the freewheeling antiestablishment epic O LUCKY MAN! and the divisive gonzo comedy BRITANNIA HOSPITAL—Anderson and McDowell continued to trace the story of the Travis