Clockwork Orange (A)
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Writer: Stanley Kubrick; Anthony Burgess
- Producer: Stanley Kubrick; Si Litvinoff
CGiii Comment
The hype around this film is a perpetual reminder of the pseudo-intellectualism that infects the film industry...
If Kubrick hadn't withdrawn it from British distribution - it would have been lost in the mists of time...and quite rightly so - because, now, it is merely a dated monstrosity of a film.
It's like watching an overly long amalgamation of Monty Python & Carry On... - without the laughs.
The acting - by all - is more ripe than an over-hung ham - equally pungent and repugnant...and played against a backdrop of abhorrent synthesized Beethoven.
The satire rapidly becomes parody and deteriorates into the depths of pastiche and paltry pretension.
It is time to de-value this ego-driven, over-praised film.
So much from a director who claimed to love cinema - he closed London's [wonderful] La Scala in 1993 for showing his film...it was allowed to be shown everywhere else in the world.
If this Orange was made now - it would receive nothing but howling ridicule.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Protagonist Alex DeLarge is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programmed to detest violence. If he goes through the program, his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating.
Cast & Characters
Malcolm McDowell as Alex;
Patrick Magee as Mr Alexander;
Michael Bates as Chief Guard;
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 Catlady;
James Marcus as Georgie;
Aubrey Morris as Deltoid;
Godfrey Quigley as Prison Chaplain;
Sheila Raynor as Mum