This incredible film takes a look at a British boarding school and three unruly students who refuse to conform. if.,. is an amazing blend of fact and fantasy which features a young Malcolm McDowell in his first film. The students in College House are kept in line with tradition, strict discipline and prefects. Director Lindsay Anderson is careful to document the repressive conditions and the painfulness of rebelling as he builds to his surreal and violent ending when the students have THEIR day. It is a marvelously funny movie, but it's also profoundly disturbing and deep.

(Courtesy of the Criterion Collection) (Suggested for mature audiences)