Officially Licensed A Clockwork Orange T-Shirt Artwork by Kyle Crawford Custom Printed on Demand Due to the custom nature of this item, we only accept exchanges on defective garments About A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) was so controversial that Kubrick himself pulled it from distribution in the UK after receiving death threats, and the film remained banned there until after his death in 1999. Malcolm McDowell suffered real injuries during filming, including a scratched cornea during the forced eye-opening scene where the lid clamps were actual medical instruments operated by a real doctor on set. The iconic "Singin' in the Rain" assault scene was improvised by McDowell when Kubrick asked him to come up with something to make it more disturbing—the studio then had to purchase the rights to the song. Based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel, the film's invented slang language "Nadsat" has entered cultural vocabulary, and its exploration of free will versus state control remains one of cinema's most provocative philosophical statements.
