On this day in movie history - A Clockwork Orange (1971):

A Clockwork Orange

directed by Stanley Kubrick,
based on the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess,

premiered in Canada on December 19, 1971.

Music by Wendy Carlos.

Cast:

Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, Michael Gover, Miriam Karlin, James Marcus, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Sheila Raynor, Madge Ryan, Anthony Sharp, Philip Stone, Michael Tarn, David Prowse, Carol Drinkwater, Steven Berkoff, Margaret Tyzack, Pauline Taylor.

Recommended reading - A Clockwork Orange (1962):

A Clockwork Orange

By Anthony Burgess.

Filmed in 1971 by Stanley Kubrick.

First published 1962.

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0393341763

ISBN-13: 978-0393341768

Description:

One of Esquire's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time.

“A brilliant novel.… [A] savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.” – New York Times.

In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”

Born on this day – Anthony Burgess:

Anthony Burgess

Writer

February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993

Credits:

65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); 99 Novels (1984); A Clockwork Orange (1962); 1985 (1978); A Clockwork Orange 2004 (1990); A Dead Man in Deptford (1993); A Long Trip to Teatime (1976); A Mouthful of Air (1992); A Vision of Battlements (1965); Abba Abba (1977); Any Old Iron (1989); Beard's Roman Women (1976); Beds in the East (1959); Blooms of Dublin (1986); But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen? (1986); Byrne (1995); Coaching Days of England (1966); Devil of a State (1961); Earthly Powers (1980); Enderby (1968); Enderby Outside (1968); Enderby's Dark Lady (1984); Ernest Hemingway and His World (1978); Flame into Being (1985); Future Imperfect (1994); Here Comes Everybody (1965); Homage To Qwert Yuiop (1986); Honey for the Bears (1963); Inside Mr. Enderby (1963); Joysprick (1973); Language Made Plain (1964); Little Wilson and Big God (1987); Man of Nazareth (1979); MF (1971); Moses (1976); Mozart and the Wolf Gang (1991); Napoleon Symphony (1974); New York (1976); Nothing like the Sun (1964); Oberon Old and New (1985); On Going to Bed (1982); On Mozart (1991); One Hand Clapping (1961); One Man's Chorus (1998); Shakespeare (1970); Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1972); The Age of the Grand Tour (1967); The Book of Spies: An Anthology of Literary Espionage (2003); The Clockwork Testament (1974); The Devil's Mode (1989); The Doctor is Sick (1960); The End of the World News (1982); The Enemy in the Blanket (1957); The Eve of Saint Venus (1964); The Heritage of British Literature (1983); The Kingdom of the Wicked (1980); The Novel Now (1967); The Pianoplayers (1986); The Right to an Answer (1960); The Wanting Seed (1956); The Worm and the Ring (1961); The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 (1970); This Man & Music (1982); Time for a Tiger (1956); Tremor of Intent (1966); Two Tales of the Future (1980); You've Had Your Time (1990).