This shapeless mass rambles from place to place like a sinister Alice in Wonderland.

Lindsay Anderson's pretentious epic features Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell repeating his character from Anderson's If... ), as he begins life as a coffee salesman, progresses to patronage of an 'orgy club' (behind the poshest hotel in the North-East), gets tortured when accidentally coming on a nuclear power plant and threatened by a mad surgeon who has turned one patient into a giant pig with a human head (the film is as lavish with its 'grue' as with its sex).

Then maybe the entire film is a joke on the audience, although at more than three hours not all of them may appreciate it.

Alan Price's vigorous music is an instant hit, which is more than you can say for the film.