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Article: the winding road to a clockwork orange This month, for the first time in 28 years, audiences will be able to see the Stanley Kubrick film that so outraged British society in 1972. charts the history of A Clockwork Orange, from its stormy release, reception, critical acclaim and ultimate withdrawal two years later
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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A GENERATION has grown up since 1972 that has never heard Stanley
Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange ticking. Among films made in post-war
Britain, it is unique: it cannot be legally shown in Britain.
A critical and box-office hit when it opened in London 28 years
ago, this savage black comedy about the right of the state to control
individual lives provoked unprecedented national outrage, from the
Home Secretary of the day down, through MPs, judges, city councillors
and moralists of all hidden agendas and blatant prejudices. And then,
amid the tempest, the film disappeared from the screens with tornado
suddenness. Kubrick withdrew it.
Since then, A Clockwork Orange has remained sight unseen - ...