O Lucky Man! (1973)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1973
Running Times: 178 mins (USA)     186 mins (UK)
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Memorial Enterprises/Sam
Producers: Lindsay Anderson, Malcolm McDowell, Michael Medwin, David Sherwin

SCRIPT
Script: David Sherwin
Novel: Candide by Voltaire (uncredited)

DIRECTION
Director: Lindsay Anderson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Miroslav Ondrícek
Gaffer: Len Crowe
Best Boy: Roy Rodhouse
Lighting: Lee Lighting Ltd

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: David Gladwell

MUSIC
Music: Alan Price

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Elsa Fennell

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Jocelyn Herbert

CAST
Malcolm McDowell (Mick Travis)
Ralph Richardson (Monty / Sir James Burgess)
Rachel Roberts (Gloria Rowe / Mme Paillard / Mrs Richards)
Arthur Lowe (Mr Duff / Charlie Johnson / Dr Munda)
Helen Mirren (Patricia)
Graham Crowden (Stewart / Millar / meths drinker)
Peter Jeffrey (factory chairman / prison governor)
Dandy Nichols (tea lady / neighbour)
Mona Washbourne (Sister Hallet / usher / neighbour)
Philip Stone (interrogator / Jenkins / Salvation Army Major)
Mary MacLeod (Mary Ball / vicar's wife)
Michael Bangerter (interrogator / William)
Wallas Eaton (Stone / Steiger / executive / warder)
Warren Clarke (M.C. / Warner / male nurse)
Bill Owen (Barlow / Superintendent)
Michael Medwin (Captain / Dickie Belminster)
Vivian Pickles (welfare lady)
Geoffrey Palmer (Basil Keyes / doctor)
Geoffrey Chater (vicar / bishop)
Anthony Nicholls (General / judge / foreman)
Brian Glover (foreman / power station guard)
Edward Judd (Oswald)
Pearl Nunez (Mrs Naidu)
Jeremy Bulloch (car crash victim / patient in clinic / sandwich-board man)
David Daker, Edward Peel (policemen)
Alan Price (himself)
Colin Green (Colin)
Clive Thacker (Clive)
Dave Markee (Dave)
Ian Leake (roadie)
Bart Alison
Ben Aris
John Barrett
Margot Bennett (coffee picker)
James Bolam (Attenborough / doctor)
Sue Bond
Constance Chapman
Peter Childs
Frank Cousins
Brian Croucher
Allen Cullen
Paul Dawkins (man at stag party)
Anna Dawson
Michael Elphick
Eleanor Fazan
Paul Healey
Geoffrey Hinsliff
Jo Jeggo
Patricia Lawrence
Stephanie Lawrence
Brian Lawson
Terence Maidment
Tuesday Miller
Christine Noonan (coffee trainee)
Ken Oxtoby
Stuart Perry
Brian Pettifer
Bill Pilkington
Cyril Renison
Irene Richmond
Roy Scammel
Peter Schofield
Frank Singuineau
Patsy Smart
David Stern
Adele Strong
Hugh Thomas
Betty Turner
Glenn Williams
Catherine Willmer
Lindsay Anderson (himself - uncredited)

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Brothers

Finland
Rating: K-16

Sweden
Rating: 15

USA
Rating: R

1973
May
2: UK - theatrical release

August
29: Sweden - theatrical release

November
2: Finland - theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Coffee Man - working title
Der Erfolgreiche - West German title
Un hombre de suerte - Spanish title
Le meilleur des mondes possible - French title
Onnenpoika - Finnish title
Szczelsiwy czloweik - Polish title

SEQUEL TO
If.... (1968)

SEQUEL
Britannia Hospital (1982)

MAGAZINES

Cinema Rising no.2 (May 1972) p.2 (UK)
article

CinemaTV Today no.9973 (25 March 1972) p.33 (UK)
credits

CinemaTV Today no.10031 (12 May 1973) p.40 (UK)
review

Film Comment vol.10 no.1 (January / February 1974) pp.38-40 (USA)
article

Film-Echo / Filmwoche no.32 (1 June 1973) p.8 (Germany)
review

Filmfacts vol.16 no.5 (1973) pp.109 - 115 (USA)
credits, reprinted reviews

Film Heritage vol.9 no.4 (Summer 1974) pp.36-37 (USA)
review

Films and Filming no.9 (June 1973) pp.45-46 (UK)
credits, review

Hollywood Reporter vol.221 no.21 (19 May 1972) p.15 (USA)
credits

Hollywood Reporter vol.226 no.28 (29 May 1973) p.3 (USA)
review

Image et Son no.272 (May 1973) pp.85-89 (France)
review

The Listener vol.113 no.2911 (30 May 1985) p.35 (UK)
review

Literature / Film Quarterly vol.2 no.3 (Summer (1974) pp.256-261 (USA)
article

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.40 no,473 (June 1973) pp.128-129 (UK)
credits, review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.40 no.475 (August 1973) p.180 (UK)
note

Radio Times vol.231 no.2994 (28 March 1981) p.12 (UK)
review

Screen vol.16 no.4 (Winter 1975 / 1976) pp.62-80 (UK)
article

Sight and Sound vol.42 no.3 (Summer 1973) pp.126-129 (UK)
review

Sight and Sound vol.3 no.10 (October 1993) p.61 (UK)
note

Take One vol.3 no.11 (May / June 1972) pp.29-30 (Canada)
article

Time Out no.168 (11 May 1973) p.21
review

Variety 18 April 1973 p.30 (USA)
credits, review

allegorical, sequels, surrealism, doctors, human experiments, salesmen

Last Updated: 17 November, 2008