...a little more on Malcolm

I watched If.... recently. Its lost none of its brilliance, and for a film made in 1968 still feels very fresh, and is as groundbreaking now as it was then. I only note it here as some scenes where shot in another of the villages within a stones throw from Borehamwood - Aldenham


While the film is set at Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire a number of scenes where shot at Aldenham School.
The school was founded in 1596 by Richard Platt, and throughout If.... we see this overbearing portrait of the man.

If Mcdowell didn't quite make it all the way to the Wood for If.... , his next picture The Raging Moon would bring him to Elstree Studios in 1970 prior to his shooting of A Clockwork Orange.


I have never seen the film, but it was directed by Brian Forbes and also starred his wife Nanette Newman. Forbes had recently been appointed as managing director of the studio, and one could say responsible for the wealth of talent coming into the studios in 1970/71 including those mentioned before . He also wrote the screenplay for A Raging Moon just for good measure.

Here's a lovely picture of the two of them - they've been married for 54 years.