Posted on 04/19/2026 7:20:10 AM PDT by Twotone
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The film is the middle picture in a trilogy that began in 1968 with If.... and would conclude in 1982 with Britannia Hospital. All three films are centered around a character named Mick Travis, played by Malcolm McDowell, and share a cast of actors who, in O Lucky Man!, play multiple roles.
But the Mick in all three films is not the same person as much as a type – student rebel in one picture, ambitious young man in another, cynical media professional in the third. The character grew as McDowell's skill as an actor and onscreen persona developed over a decade and a half where he became a star and moved to America.
Basically If.... was essential to Malcolm McDowell – it was his breakout role and the one that got him the part of Alex in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, from which everything else he would subsequently do flowed. But O Lucky Man! was essential to Anderson, since it was made from an idea suggested by McDowell, who wanted to work with him again. It arrived onscreen as a sequel (of sorts) and provided the momentum that would demand a third film, the sum of which have come to encapsulate what most people knew about the director before his death in 1994 and still know about him today.
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Never saw it. Did he have white horses?
Did he kill Kirk ?
I saw it, at The Flick Theater in Dener, Larimer Square, 1974 I think; it was, weird
I think McDowell mostly did weird pics. There’s only been one or two that I enjoyed him in.
I liked Malcom McDowell in his recurring role as the Visualize cult leader Bret Stiles in “The Mentalist” TV show.
Rebel--Carol Jarvis
Without a Cause--The Heartbreakers
Yep. And ladies by the score.
O Lucky Man! is a cult film. Not what you might think.
Yes
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