Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Bring on the original version!
Last year a local repertory theater in Minneapolis showed the original X-rated version of this film, which was the one released before a few cuts were made to garner the R version. The difference is not huge, but it is important: The scenes shown to Alex (by force) in the theater are more explicitly violent and, therefore, more repellant. That part of the X-rated version is more true to the book. The other scene affected (less crucially) by the R cut is the early encounter between Alex and his droogs with "Billyboy" and his gang. I hope that someone at Warner will see fit to release the uncensored versions of both "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Clockwork Orange".