Malcolm McDowell-Scene from If....

The thing I hate about you Rowntree is the way you give Coca-Cola to your scum and your best teddy bear to Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the rest of your frigid life.

[@gailalcantara4492]

This was the movie where Kubrick finally said "We found our Alex."

[@kristianj.8798]

From just page 4, when he read the novel actually.

[@cuentaestudios9241]

STOP SAYING THAT, IM REALLY TIRED OF READ THAT STANLEY KUBRICK FOUND HIS STAR IN LINDSAY ANDERSON'S MOVIE, YEAH EVERYVARY KNOWS THAT!

[@clivejohnson9515]

@@cuentaestudios9241 so what? Don't like it, scroll past - get over it!!!

[@HerveBoisde]

@@kristianj.8798 right. Because he’d already watched this film 4 times.

[@benclasper2883]

“That bit of wool on your tit” the funniest line in the whole scene.

[@chadchadman5056]

Viddy well little brothers viddy well !

[@howardleah8401]

Powerful stuff. Excellent film

[@TheNostaglicFlower]

Malcolm was yummy in this movie. *giggles*

[@SariaMew456]

As always, Malcolm McDowell kicks butt! :D

[@literallyallthingsonice]

malcolm is a rockstar. a bloody rockstar- always has been, always will.

[@anorak64]

One of the most memorable moments of 'If....' and which launches the film from a new pad. Those who haven't seen it will have to watch it from here on!

[@trellzaboppin]

I fucking love his attitude.

[@christopherjames375]

The same attitude j had at school . And received 4 strokes of it across mg ads. The 1 st 1 caught me square on . The 2 nd I put my hands across my backside . Where he bought it down across my hands .The 3 rd my knees buckled The 4 th I slumped into the wall . But just about regained my balance . CUNTS .

[@RadioDivine]

That He Was, Ah How I Wish He Was Younger In Our Days.

[@KellyGreen5555]

Brilliant film & Malcolm McDowell rocks it!

[@ashleyglaister316]

OMG that smirk is soo hot!!!

[@walterbrown9651]

Great movie. One of my very favorites! "Thank you Roundtree."

[@tehnatureboy]

McDowell is a fkin badass

[@rfbarrington]

42 years later he plays a high school principal.

[@Katetanic]

Man, he was young!

[@tescocadaver]

The Mick Travis trilogy of films are the most underrated films in British film history.

[@carryonalex12]

Alex's early days!!!!

[@ashikana21]

I've had problems with authority before. I dream of the day when I can say something like this, only they would probably be more confused than anything else. 'Coca-cola? Oxfam? My teddy bear?'

[@margin606]

All of these concepts are alive and well in the UK

[@GhostWatching]

An Excellent film, a Masterpiece ! Thankyou for posting this.

[@thatgirlkelly1]

1:00 I can see the ultra-violence on his face.

[@australian6983]

It was just a slight tollchock!

[@verolau4026]

Que belleza Malcolm McDowell infante/adolescente!! Tuvo esa carita de Ángel dutante décadas hasta que ya al final se desarrolló mas a los 40. Igual sigue siendo un hombre muy bello ❤

[@yoochoobb]

Same here! My two favourite actors.

[@stevai6732]

@sandybeaches15 He is very handsome (This is coming from a straight guy.). More importantly though he's a great actor, and is in my opinion, the coolest anti-hero ever in A Clockwork Orange.

[@KellyGreen5555]

Brilliant film, brilliant scene. Thanks for posting it. More please.

[@fuzzballzz36]

Well, maybe I can help a little...I assume you know that Oxfam is a charity organization. He's saying that it's okay for Rowntree to give favours to his little pets and give nothing of substance to charity, but it's intolerable for that same person to expect them (Travis and co.) to see him as some kind of paragon of virtue and piety, to be looked up to as an example. The hypocrisy of that is intolerable to them. They're being asked to suck up to the leaders of a corrupt system who (cont'd.)

[@MoonBarrett]

That was hot.

[@Bizarronumber4]

I'm seeing this classic next Thursday on the big screen. One of Lindsay Anderson and Malcolm MacDowell's best films!

[@maratonlegendelenemirei3352]

How was it?

[@Bizarronumber4]

@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 Great movie!

[@michealcurrie8272]

He knew he was going to the gym.....Hero!! I almost expect him to say ...It"s a far greater thing that I do now, than I have ever done.

[@fuzzballzz36]

This is basically why the '60s happened. A whole lot of people looked past the bullshit to the truth and said "Why the fuck should we listen to your bullshit? You're no better than us as human beings. Fuck your office." and I agree heartily to this day.

[@fuzzballzz36]

@bigrider2806 Progress was definitely made though.

[@fuzzballzz36]

It certainly was, and thank the gods for that.

[@badgoy8439]

And what exactly was that truth?

[@fuzzballzz36]

@@badgoy8439 the truth was that people who called themselves superior, set themselves above others and doled out punishment were no better than anyone else. At least that's my interpretation.

[@badgoy8439]

@@fuzzballzz36 well, seeing the way things are today, I wish we could go back to before the 60s...

[@Braavis]

You'll be pleased to hear that he got sent down for 9 years yesterday

[@UncleClauClau]

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[@Fersomling]

I haven't seen this since the 80s!

[@TamiJoeris-ge5dg]

This is the best scene. :) 😅😅😅😅

[@dav01kar]

Rowntree looks about 30 years old lol

[@ParanoiDave]

For Rowntree, read any member of the establishment. For Mick, anyone who sees another way.

[@chrisbacos]

".....one bloody joke" As an American in 2024 that's how I see the power structure in the major Anglophone nations.

[@alanhesketh9265]

Actor David Wood has published an inexpensive book about the making of the film, highly recommended

[@gescinj]

que gran escena realmente IF::: es una peli de lo mejor

[@thegafferlives]

Classic scene.

[@fuzzballzz36]

@GameOfYears You probably know that Oxfam is a charity organization...Travis means that Rowntree makes little token gestures toward respectability, yet gives favors to his little pets, after whom he lusts...and then expects the boys to see him as some pillar of respectability and moral uprightness. It's a comment on Rowntree's hypocrisy.

[@NickMcFarland01]

The point is you show respect whether you like a man or not...especially when he is in charge. Make sense, sir?

[@fuzzballzz36]

@@NickMcFarland01 not when the entire work is about rebellion against a harmful and unjust system.

[@NickMcFarland01]

​@@fuzzballzz36I can see your point, to a point.

[@christopherjames375]

I had 4 strokes of it in19u3 . I can imagine . 10 with a run up Mindy I would nt of minded being the guy who administered the cane to lady James backside . Lol .

[@tanyuj]

same here... its especially shows in a clockwork orange

[@ldnkid]

Amen.

[@kempini]

so much like my time at Bruton!

[@MoonBarrett]

SO TRUE!!

[@BlitzingPastizzi]

@MichaelTravis3 I want to get ahold of this DVD but I don't think I can get it in Australia, sadly. The very few scenes I have watched, it fits under the heading of "classic".

[@daisyrandone08]

killing lineee wow. :D

[@fuzzballzz36]

At that time for those people, they were treated brutally in those schools, but expected to salaam before their officials and have total respect and unswerving obedience for a chain of command from Head of House to Headmaster to Provost to the Police to Parliament to the PM to the Queen, and you were expected to abase yourself at each step and recognize that they were better than you, and knew what was Good for the Country. The same thing was happening in America in the '40s and '50s.

[@eliasqueen4020]

Yes and many, many years later, certain things are certainly more fair/equal. But overall the morale and economic situation of society (including and especially the working and lower-middle classes) is at an all time low to the point where people are 20 years away from gladly and thankfully voting in fascist dictators. (I speak mainly of USA because I am not from England). Anyway, I mean that not as an attack on you, but just as another thing to consider, this movie while thematically and aesthetically phenomenal, had an agenda and was even adapted in part from a WWII German anti-British propaganda film.

[@fuzzballzz36]

@@eliasqueen4020 You are certainly right.

[@Krzyszczynski]

Yeah, nothing like having the bubble of self-regard, built up by meaningless token acts of generosity, thoroughly pricked by an honest bit of truth-telling. I did just that to someone a few years ago, and the other guy burst his boiler so totally as a result, I thought for a second he was going to physically assault me.

[@fuzzballzz36]

@GameOfYears It helps if you've seen the rest of the movie, which I don't know if you have or not.

[@fredo1070]

EPIC, put down.

[@christopherjames375]

I went to the local secondary modern school from 1969 to 1974 .disapline was swift and brutal . Kids often being beaten up and canned . They would nt get away with it now .I was canned in 1973 . 3 brutal strokes across my backside . The sadistic brute who canned me if I ever c him again . I shall belt him 1 .

[@jamestheposh]

He’s probably dead?

[@Glamagal20091]

Run in the corridor! If we had done that at school we'd have been lambasted.

[@anunfittingname2]

Wow? The rivers are flowing with hard nails. What did you do?

[@mattbod]

Lol the prefect looks about 30.

[@peterwimsey1]

released 1968 when McDowell, Warwick, Wood and Swann were all about 23 years old.

[@artemiszeus9735]

Malcolm was 24 in most of these scenes.

[@wrmty56413]

1:52 Rowntree is creaming his pants in anticipation of caning Travis

[@Rosebud04]

Post more scenes please.

[@Krzyszczynski]

"I serve the nation." OK, but if you're going to take that much pride in so doing, then at least have your bloody tie on straight!!

[@f16c5212345]

lol thats the dude from a clockwork orange

[@christopherjames375]

Yea .

[@mithwenarataur]

Pleas post at least the beating scene in the gym and the finale. Oh an I love the part with the girl in the cafe as well (where they behave like tigers, you know?). I wish you could just post the whole movie *sigh*

[@Zzsmuf]

Malcolm and I share a Birthday.

[@MichaelTravis3]

What, no responses for a year! Coming as I do to this post as the third of my name (apparently), I say this is surely the finest moment in any British film ever. I exaggerate, of course and no doubt, but can you name a finer? (And where are you, MichaelTravises1 and 2?)

[@dondraper2488]

I was always caned at school....

[@SparkieGoth]

*Laughs* Yes, of course! He was fit, though! Not now! He was back in the 60s/70s, though.

[@Krzyszczynski]

No doubt his school nickname was Nuisance Myth?

[@yoochoobb]

The guy who played Rowntree is dead...

[@tinaholman956]

I would loved to be canned by Malcolm McDowell

[@ESSUU1]

@Meeriio "Who else watches this scene with their mind simply just saying; .....singning in the rainnn :)"

[@tanyuj]

Yes i agree... weird turn on of mine..

[@tanyuj]

lol but the person who plays rowntree is older than him in real life too!...heh!

[@adcsgrttc8654]

1:00

[@pyro43261]

That's an awesome line. Can anyone give me a short (spoiler free) synopsis on this film?

[@Johnconno]

No.

[@ladytalon]

He was indeed, but I prefer him with his white hair *fans self*

[@JarrodCook93]

Ive seen the full movie and i still sisnt get it

[@jjdecani]

I regret to inform you that that is because you're a bit thick.

[@superamanda]

You ideally have to be British or an Anglophile. Admittedly it breaks down into surrealism once they fine the baby in the jar and the guns.

[@xeo7066]

Malcolm McDowell isn't raping anybody in this scene.

[@DLLW93]

@oasisgirl1978 i laughed pretty hard at that comment :D I would too... i would...

[@SparkieGoth]

Is McDowell fit in this scene or what?

[@DaisyLiveChannel]

does anyone know where i can find the movie in its entirety?

[@DTD110865]

I actually have my own copy on DVD. I don't remember where I got it though.

[@christopherjames375]

You tube punch in full movie .

[@Hehehihi76]

What's the name of this movie?

[@miketravis6149]

If

[@BLUEsurf63]

From 1968, one of the best british films ever made..

[@millicentbystander5206]

I just don't get this. WHY do they obey the vile prefects? WHY do they go down to the gym to be beaten? Or if they do go down to the gym, why don't they grab the sticks off those bullies and give them a damn good thrashing? Why do they accept the rules in such a corrupt system?

[@UncleClauClau]

They do rebel, just not immediately.

[@hbbhdd7291]

Haven't it ouccured to you, that they had to obey the rules, otherwise they would be expelled? The relation between prefects and proffesors in the movie was brillantly portrayed. It almost seemed that the prefects, by being on friendly terms with the professors were able to manipulate them and ultimately have the amount of power to act upon nearly all their twisted wishes/convicitons.

[@NickMcFarland01]

​@@hbbhdd7291Expelled OR SPANKED like this.

[@obliviouspet]

You DO realise hes a very old man right about now, right? ;)

[@ianpunchard2878]

could be from the Conservative whips office .... even includes Jacob Rees Mogg

[@christopherjames375]

Of cource back in the. Days . Prefects were allowed to cane kids .a prefect gave me lines in later years .I saw him took his car keys off a him .then vouched them down the drain .what u gonna do givecme lines .

[@NickMcFarland01]

Do you ageee or disagree with corp. pun.?