Extra - Textual Information - A Clockwork Orange

·      A clockwork Orange is based on a novel published by Anthony Burgess in 1962. Burgess claimed that the novel's inspiration was his first wife Lynne's beating by a gang of drunken American servicemen stationed in England during World War 2.

·      A Clockwork Orange is released in Britain during a period when politicians and citizens' groups begin to question the escalation of onscreen violence. 

·      The British authorities considered the sexual violence extreme, furthermore, there occurred legal claims that the movie A Clockwork Orange had inspired true copycat behaviour.

·      In March 1972, a fourteen-year-old-boy pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a classmate, thus Kubrick asked Warner Bro’s to withdraw the film from British distribution in 1973.

·      The press also blamed the film for a rape attack, in which the attackers sang “Singing in the Rain”.