O Lucky Human! (1973) is a surreal British film directed by Lindsay Anderson. It stars Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis, the schoolboy from either Anderson's 1969 film If.....

Within O Lucky Human!, Travis progresses from either coffee salesman (working for sleazy boss Mr Duff) to personalized supporter to Sir James Burgess, an evil mastermind. When you took his journeying, Travis learns a unmoral example, reinforced by many songs in the soundtrack by Alan Price, that he must abandon his principles sequentially to succeed, however unlike a more characters he meets he must locate a detached idealism that might allow him to few feet away himself from either the evils of the globe. When one of a film's songs says,

Inside parallel using Travis' lives, a film shows 1960s Britain retreating from its imperial retiring however managing to locate a select few influence in the globe by means of corrupt dealings by using foreign dictators.

A motion picture originally began as a script written by McDowell just about his lives as a coffee salesman inside his late teens/early 20s.

Britannia Hospital (1982) completes the trilogy of films.

Cast (partial list)
many of the actors play many roles & Alan Price appears around several scenes -- each around music streaming videos-rather statistics in which he is seen performing his music, however late interacting directly by having Mick Travis -- adding to the film's surreal air.

Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis Ralph Richardson as Monty/Sir James Burgess Arthur Lowe as Mr. Duff/Charlie Johnson/Dr. Munda Helen Mirren as Patricia Graham Crowden Dandy Nichols Warren Clarke Bill Owen Geoffrey Palmer Brian Glover