Mick Travis is a fictional character played by Malcolm McDowell in three films directed by film director Lindsay Anderson and written by David Sherwin. Mick Travis is supposed to be the everyman from the 1960s to the 1980s as the face of satirical tales of modern British life. Most of the series satirizes social classism and corruption.
If… (1968)
If is a satirical drama about a group of three non-conformist students who commit petty theft and anti-establishment attitudes attract the attention of the sadistic senior students who bully the lower-grade students to do their bidding. The three non-conformist students fight against the out-of-touch school administrators and the sadistic senior students at their pompous boarding school in an unexpected showdown.
The film is violent throughout but the ending of the film was the biggest factor that got the film an X-rating due to it being extreme. Other content is considered to offend modern movie watchers like the language.
The film is a satire about the British school system and the favoritisms and corruption with privilege and taught smugness. This was the first of the Mick Travis films and a part of the Criterion Collection.
O Lucky Man! (1973)
This is the longest and mostly revived film of the series. Mick Travis is now a picaresque character as an ambitious coffee salesman roaming through the bleak impoverished countryside in search of optimism and happiness. He comes across many people going through issues that their financial situation and social class placed them in.
The film is a satire of social classes and the working class’s day-to-day struggles. The satire gets dark showing depression, homelessness, poverty, terrorism, racism and capitalism. The three-hour film’s timeline is a five-year trek where he is abused and mistreated only to get somewhat of an ending reminiscent of a beginning.
Britannia Hospital (1982)
The final film in the series of Mick Travis. A hospital preps for a visit of the Queen’s Mother but the head of administration has issues with the protest against privatization with the kitchen staff joining in for solidarity. A loony professor is prepping to do a medical procedure demonstration for the Queen Mother. Meanwhile, a rogue documentarian sneaks into the hospital to film the waste of money and corruption.
The film is more of a black comedy than a dramatic satire that works because the story themes are about the mismanagement of the British healthcare system and the corruption of necessities. It might have been too bleak seeing how dark O Lucky Man got. Mick Travis is once again a rebel but now with a cause has an undercover documentarian filming the H.R.H. referred to as the Queen in the film.
Under The Moonlight 
Mick Travis is a fictional character played by Malcolm McDowell in three films directed by film director Lindsay Anderson and written by David Sherwin. Mick Travis is supposed to be the everyman from the 1960s to the 1980s as the face of satirical tales of modern British life. Most of the series satirizes social classism and corruption.
If… (1968)
If is a satirical drama about a group of three non-conformist students who commit petty theft and anti-establishment attitudes attract the attention of the sadistic senior students who bully the lower-grade students to do their bidding. The three non-conformist students fight against the out-of-touch school administrators and the sadistic senior students at their pompous boarding school in an unexpected showdown.
The film is violent throughout but the ending of the film was the biggest factor that got the film an X-rating due to it being extreme. Other content is considered to offend modern movie watchers like the language.
The film is a satire about the British school system and the favoritisms and corruption with privilege and taught smugness. This was the first of the Mick Travis films and a part of the Criterion Collection.
O Lucky Man! (1973)
This is the longest and mostly revived film of the series. Mick Travis is now a picaresque character as an ambitious coffee salesman roaming through the bleak impoverished countryside in search of optimism and happiness. He comes across many people going through issues that their financial situation and social class placed them in.
The film is a satire of social classes and the working class’s day-to-day struggles. The satire gets dark showing depression, homelessness, poverty, terrorism, racism and capitalism. The three-hour film’s timeline is a five-year trek where he is abused and mistreated only to get somewhat of an ending reminiscent of a beginning.
Britannia Hospital (1982)
The final film in the series of Mick Travis. A hospital preps for a visit of the Queen’s Mother but the head of administration has issues with the protest against privatization with the kitchen staff joining in for solidarity. A loony professor is prepping to do a medical procedure demonstration for the Queen Mother. Meanwhile, a rogue documentarian sneaks into the hospital to film the waste of money and corruption.
The film is more of a black comedy than a dramatic satire that works because the story themes are about the mismanagement of the British healthcare system and the corruption of necessities. It might have been too bleak seeing how dark O Lucky Man got. Mick Travis is once again a rebel but now with a cause has an undercover documentarian filming the H.R.H. referred to as the Queen in the film.
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