A Clockwork Orange – 2000 RR

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Size: 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76 cm)

An original British advance quad poster for the 2000 re-release of the 1971 film “A Clockwork Orange”, featuring artwork by Philip Castle.

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel. It employs disturbing and violent themes to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.

Malcolm McDowell, the central character, is a charismatic anti-social delinquent who leads a small gang of thugs, Pete (Michael Tarn), Georgie (James Marcus), and Dim (Warren Clarke), whom he calls his Droogs.

The film was met with controversy as soon as it was released in 1971, the film was withdrawn from distribution at the insistence of Kubrick himself following a number of death threats that were apparently received by the director and his family. These threats had been the result of the film being implicated, or at least referenced, in several high-profile criminal cases, including one in which an elderly vagrant had been kicked to death, mirroring an infamous scene in Kubrick’s film.

When the legendary London cinema the Scala Film Club decided to show the film in 1993, they were sued by Warner Bros at Kubrick’s insistence. The studio won the court case, and the cinema club was effectively bankrupt.

When Kubrick died in 1999 the ban was relaxed, and the film was finally made available with a very limited cinema run taking place - this quad poster is from that run.

“Being the adventures of a young man, whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.”

Tags: British 1970s 2000s Quad Sci-Fi Adventure Drama Crime