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1968 · FILM

If....

A rebellious lower‑sixth student leads his friends in a daring uprising to topple the tyrannical prefects and apathetic teachers of an English boarding school, risking brutal retaliation for a chance at freedom.

“Which side will you be on?”

Directed by
Lindsay Anderson
Written by
David Sherwin, John Howlett
Runtime
112 min
CrimeDrama

Synopsis

At an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy dominates, with authority resting in the hands of distant and ineffective teachers and cruel, bullying prefects from the Upper Sixth. Three students from the Lower Sixth—Wallace, Johnny, and leader Mick Travis—decide to take a shocking and drastic action to challenge the existing balance of privilege.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by David GladwellShot by Miroslav OndricekScored by Marc WilkinsonDesigned by Jocelyn Herbert

Box Office

1968 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$4.6M

Budget$500K
Worldwide gross$4.6M
break-even (2.5×)

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  • If …de
  • Se...it

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