A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 5
Disturbing and thought-provoking, A Clockwork Orange is a cold, dystopian nightmare with a very dark sense of humor.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 4
Disturbing and thought-provoking, A Clockwork Orange is a cold, dystopian nightmare with a very dark sense of humor.
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Movie Info
Stanley Kubrick dissects the nature of violence in this darkly ironic, near-future satire, adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel, complete with "Nadsat" slang. Classical music-loving proto-punk Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his "Droogs" spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before embarking on "a little of the old ultraviolence," such as terrorizing a writer, Mr. Alexander (Patrick Magee), and gang raping his wife (who later dies as a result). After Alex is jailed for bludgeoning
Dec 19, 1971 Wide
Jun 29, 1999
Warner Bros.
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Cast
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Malcolm McDowell
Alex -
Patrick Magee
Mr. Frank Alexander -
Michael Bates
Chief Guard -
Adrienne Corri
Mrs. Alexander -
Warren Clarke
Dim -
Aubrey Morris
P.R. Deltoid -
Steven Berkoff
Constable -
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Lindsay Campbell
Inspector -
John Carney
C.I.D. Official -
John Clive
Stage Actor -
Carol Drinkwater
Nurse Feeley -
Carl Duering
Dr. Brodsky -
Paul Farrell
Tramp -
Clive Francis
Lodger -
Michael Gover
Prison Governor -
Gillian Hills
Sonietta -
Miriam Karlin
Cat Lady -
David Prowse
Julian -
Godfrey Quigley
Prison Chaplain -
Sheila Raynor
Mum -
Madge Ryan
Dr. Branum -
John Savident
Conspirator -
Barbara Scott
Marty -
Anthony Sharp
Minister -
Philip Stone
Dad -
Pauline Taylor
Psychiatrist -
Margaret Tyzack
Conspirator -
Virginia Wetherell
Stage Actress -
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Katya Wyeth
Girl -
Vivienne Chandler
Handmaiden -
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James Marcus
Georgie -
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Cheryl Grunwald
Rape Victim -
Craig Hunter
Dr. Friendly -
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Michael Tarn
Pete
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All Critics (46) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (5) | DVD (25)
A painless, bloodless, and ultimately pointless futuristic fantasy.
Kubrick's contributions are his wit and his eye. The wit, too much at times, is as biting as in Dr. Strangelove, and the production, while of another order, is as spectacular as in 2001.
A merciless, demoniac satire in the future imperfect.
Top CriticStanley Kubrick's latest film takes the heavy realities of the 'do-your-thing' and 'law-and-order' syndromes, runs them through a cinematic centrifuge, and spews forth the commingled comic horrors of a regulated society.
A very bad film -- snide, barely competent, and overdrawn -- that enjoys a perennial popularity, perhaps because its confused moral position appeals to the secret Nietzscheans within us.
A sexless, inhuman film, whose power derives from a ruthless subordination of its content to the demands of telling a good story.
Top CriticA violent meditation on violence. Not for kids.
The rare film that hits you in the head and stomach simultaneously.
[VIDEO ESSAY] There's Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange," and then there's everything else.
The music made me do it
Producer-director Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel is a strangely overwhelming experience %u2013 at time contemptible, and yet always valid in its sardonic outlook.
Ambitious and stylized (perhaps to a fault), Kubrick's poignantly prophetic satire of crime and punishment, redemption and free will, is still much misunderstood by critics emphasizing its ultra-violence.
Spectacular, operatic, colorful, and exquisitely photographed.
All of Kubricks films have generated controversy, but this one engendered outright hostility.
Directed with assurance and filled with the cynicism, paranoia, visual flair (and lurid titillation) that characterised so much of his work, this is vintage Kubrick and classic cinema.
Remains as unsettling and shocking today as the day it was released.
Who else but Stanley Kubrick could successfully direct an ultra-stylish, sci-fi cult film about the impossibility of redemption in the absence of freely willed sin?
Ice cold, indecent, and way too obvious to be in any way deep.
May be Kubrick's greatest film, for its lasting influence and social significance.
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- Psychiatrist: What do you want?
- Alex: Uh, no time for the ol' in-out, love. I've just come to read the meter!
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- Alex: I jumped, O my brothers, and I fell hard but I did not snuff it, oh no. If I had snuffed it, I would not be here to tell what I have told.
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- Alex: What are we gonna do? Talk about me sex life?
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- Chief Guard: Are you now, or have you ever been a homosexual?
- Alex: No, sir.
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- Chief Guard: Are you able to see the white line painted on the floor directly behind you, Six-Double-Five-Three-Two-One?
- Alex: Yes, sir.
- Chief Guard: Then your toes belong on the other side of it!
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- Alex: Let's get things nice & sparkling clear.
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Foreign Titles
- Uhrwerk Orange (DE)
- Orange mécanique (FR)
