O Lucky Man!

Malcolm McDowell’s Mick Travis character takes an odyssey around modern Britain in Lindsay Anderson and David Sherwin’s one-of-a-kind satirical epic.

  • Director

    Lindsay Anderson

  • With

    Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Rachel Roberts, Ralph Richardson

  • UK 1973. 184min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

Nothing and nobody is spared from Anderson and writer David Sherwin’s caustic gaze in their inexhaustibly inventive and sometimes horrifying satire, the second in their ‘state of the nation’ trilogy. Sparked by an idea proposed by star Malcolm McDowell, it follows the continuing adventures of the Mick Travis character, now an ambitious coffee salesman, as he travels around a Britain of Kafka-esque bureaucracy and absurdity, his exploits commented on throughout by Alan Price’s musical interludes.

Contains scenes of racism.

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