Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Kubrick's Classic
Director Stanley Kubrick's masterful satire on crime and punishment in the ultra-violent future. Excellent performance by McDowell as the murderous misfit captured and reprogrammed by the equally sadistic government. Based on the prescient novel by Anthony Burgess. In the Britain of the near future, a sadistic punk leads a gang on nightly rape and murder sprees, then is captured and becomes the subject of a grim experiment to eradicate his violent tendencies in this extraordinary adaptation of Anthony Burgess's controversial novel. The film is an exhilarating experience, with an outstanding performance by McDowell as the funny, fierce psychopath. Many memorable, disturbing sequences including a rape conducted while assailant McDowell belts "Singing in the Rain." Truly outstanding, provocative work from master filmmaker Kubrick.