A Clockwork Orange

This controversial futuristic look at England a few years from then, grabs your imagination in the strangest parts and regurgitates it back into your brain.
A Clockwork Orange chronicles the life of Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), the young leader of a band of hoodlums who spend their nights in thievery, rape, and, of course, ultraviolence. Alex and his goons have managed to withdraw any form of goodness from their hearts and replace it with an unconscious, unbridled passion for violence and self pleasure. Their crimes are guiltless as is their souls.
Our humble narrator is forsaken by his mutinous droogs who set him up using a nasty bit of milk. Off to prison goes poor Alex where he learns about the Bible... and all it's sex, battle, and gore. He is taken by it and sees it for what it is not. Shortly after, a scientist comes along in search of prospects he wishes to reform. His methods are a bit unusual and very cutting edge. Who better than our simple, quiet, narrator to fill in the vacant spot.
Little does Alex realize that the viddies he will see and the drugs he will be given will take away his zeal for violence. Ahhhh, he will no longer be able to commit any adulturous or violent act without feeling terribly sick and losing control of his functions, falling prone on the ground like a wee baby. The only thing he had going for him (his meanness) is now gone away. This newly realized weakness will prove all the difference when he gets back into the real world where his enemies and former victims wait in the night.
A Clockwork Orange holds no illusions and has no fairy tale ending. It is gritty, to-the-core reality which is perhaps why it has become such a cult classic.

STARRING:

Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge
Patrick Magee (I) as Frank Alexander
Michael Bates (I) as Chief Guard Barnes
Warren Clarke as Dim
John Clive as Stage Actor
Adrienne Corri as Mrs. Alexander
Carl Duering as Dr. Brodsky
Paul Farrell as Tramp
Clive Francis as Lodger
Michael Gover as Prison Governor
Miriam Karlin as Cat Lady
James Marcus (II) as Georgie
Aubrey Morris as P.R. Deltoid
Godfrey Quigley as Prison Chaplain
Sheila Raynor as Mrs. DeLarge ("M")
Madge Ryan as Dr. Branum
John Savident as Conspirator Dolin
Anthony Sharp as Minister
Philip Stone (I) as Mr. DeLarge ("P")
Pauline Taylor (I) as Dr. Taylor
Margaret Tyzack as Rubinstein
Steven Berkoff as Constable
Lindsay Campbell as Detective
Michael Tarn as Pete
David Prowse as Julian (Frank Alexander's Bodyguard, Therapist)
Barrie Cookson
Jan Adair as Handmaiden
Gaye Brown
Peter Burton
John J. Carney as CID Man
Vivienne Chandler as Handmaiden
Richard Connaught as Billy-boy
Prudence Drage as Handmaiden
Carol Drinkwater as Sister Feeley
Lee Fox
Cheryl Grunwald as Rape victim
Gillian Hills as Sonietta
Craig Hunter (I) as Doctor
Shirley Jaffe
Virginia Wetherell as Stage Actress
Neil Wilson (I)
Katya Wyeth as Girl

DIRECTED BY:

Stanley Kubrick

WRITTEN BY:

Anthony Burgess

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