- Menu
Disc #1 -- O Lucky Man!, Pt. 1
Play Movie - Part One
Scene Selections
Special Features
Commentary by Malcolm McDowell, David Sherwin and Alan Price
O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
Theatrical Trailer
Languages
Spoken Languages: English 5.1
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English (For the Hearing Impaired)
Subtitles: Français
Subtitles: Off
Disc #2 -- O Lucky Man!, Pt. 2
Play Movie - Part Two
Scene Selections
Special Features
Commentary by Malcolm McDowell, David Sherwin and Alan Price
O Lucky Malcolm!
Languages
Spoken Languages: English 5.1
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English (For the Hearing Impaired)
Subtitles: Français
Subtitles: Off
- Chapters
Disc #1 -- O Lucky Man!, Pt. 1
1. Unlucky! [2:21]
2. O Lucky Man! [2:16]
3. Imperial's New Batch [3:34]
4. Man for the North East [5:33]
5. Taste Tests [1:50]
6. Poor People [1:39]
7. Private Accident [4:21]
8. Monty and the New Rabbit [4:56]
9. Sell Sell [2:57]
10. Same Arrangement [3:37]
11. Private Entertainment [6:06]
12. Bed and Boarder [3:13]
13. Suit of Gold [2:49]
14. Taken for a Spy [4:03]
15. Interrogation [6:43]
16. Disaster [5:04]
17. Thanks to God [4:10]
18. Food at God's Table [2:14]
19. Pastoral [2:52]
20. Research Volunteer [4:02]
21. Rare Encephaloid [4:49]
22. Undercover Experiment [2:55]
23. Band in a Van [5:36]
Disc #2 -- O Lucky Man!, Pt. 2
24. London [3:08]
25. Roof With a View [4:56]
26. Sir James' Valuable Time [4:22]
27. Fall and Rise [4:58]
28. Presidential Confab [6:49]
29. Lethal Honey [5:50]
30. Look Over Your Shoulder [4:10]
31. To Business [2:56]
32. Surprise in the Study [3:09]
33. Dividing Line [4:43]
34. Justice [3:31]
35. Prison [4:35]
36. Uneasy Release [4:11]
37. Our Misguided Brother [3:13]
38. Mrs. Richards [5:57]
39. My Home Town [2:19]
40. Helping Hand [2:59]
41. Loving Brothers [4:27]
42. Changes [3:50]
43. Audition [3:39]
44. Smile and Dance [3:31]
45. End Credits and Exit Music [2:45]
1. Opening Montage [2:48]
2. Come On, Come On [4:11]
3. If [5:35]
4. A Clockwork Orange [7:40]
5. Weird Effect [8:14]
6. O Lucky Man! [7:11]
7. Caligula [1:58]
8. Time After Time [5:20]
9. McDowell Generations [5:46]
10. Gangster No. 1, Between Strangers [6:12]
11. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead [5:20]
12. Diabolical Storyteller [4:56]
13. The Company [3:19]
14. Red Roses and Petrol [4:08]
15. As Great as Film Acting Gets [1:52]
16. Evilenko [8:05]
17. Summing Up: End Credits [3:21]
- Features
Commentary by Malcolm McDowell, Alan Price and screenwriter David Sherwin
New feature-length career profile O Lucky Malcolm! produced/directed by Jan Harlan, edited by Katia de Vidas
Vintage featurette O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
Theatrical trailer
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Directors
Lindsay Anderson
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Producers
Michael Medwin
Lindsay Anderson
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Composers (Music Score)
Alan Price
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Editors
David Gladwell
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Screen Writers
David Sherwin
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Set Designers
Harry Cordwell
Others
Art Director - Alan Withy
Cinematographer - Miroslav Ondrícek
Composer (Music Score) - Alan Price
Costume Designer - Elsa Fennell
From Idea By - Malcolm McDowell
Makeup - Basil Newall
Makeup - Paul Rabiger
Production Designer - Jocelyn Herbert
Production Manager - Zelda Barron
Songwriter - Alan Price
Special Effects - John Stears
Lindsay Anderson's epic-scale satire of wealth, ambition, and class in Great Britain is so dry and played with such subtlety that some viewers may wonder at times if it's really intended to be a comedy, which of course is one of its great strengths. For a film whose messages and observations are dagger sharp,
O Lucky Man! never overplays its hand, no matter how bizarre the circumstances
Malcolm McDowell's Mick Travis is forced to confront; and from the torture session interrupted by the tea lady to casual suicides by lower-level office functionaries,
O Lucky Man! keeps one foot in reality at all times, which makes its brutal absurdities all the more telling (and hilarious).
McDowell's performance is one of his very best, managing to blend Mick's sometimes cartoonish get-up-and-go with a credible sense of puzzlement and anger at the surreal events which follow him, and
Anderson's stock company -- including
Ralph Richardson,
Arthur Lowe,
Rachel Roberts and
Helen Mirren -- are equally engaging in their multiple roles.
Alan Price's songs offer a perfect running commentary on the narrative, and
Anderson's audacious device of periodically returning to
Price and his band in the studio still stands as one of the most intelligent uses of pop music in film scoring. Engaging and compelling for every moment of its three-hour running time,
O Lucky Man! is a bellowing cry of bitterness and a call for cultural revolution lurking just beneath the surface of a low-key comedy of errors; and it's all but impossible to imagine any director/actor team besides
Anderson and
McDowell making this work nearly so well. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Alan Price : Anthony Asquith Award - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1973
- Arthur Lowe : Best Supporting Actor - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1973
- Alan Price : Best Original Score - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1973
