A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The violent scenes of Stanley Kubrick’s film rapidly attracted controversy, with headlines ‘Coming Shortly, a Film for None of the Family’, ‘What Good Can This Film Possibly Do?’, and ‘Garbage Disguised as Art is Still Garbage’. There were claims that the film was responsible for a number of ‘copycat’ crimes including home invasions, rapes, street beatings and murder. Headlines such as ‘Hunt for Clockwork Orange Sex Gang’ began to appear in the press during the 1970s.
