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The A Clockwork Orange DVD is the 2001 Warner digitally restored and remastered release of Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film, on one Region 1 disc with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound and the theatrical trailer. This A Clockwork Orange DVD is a pre-owned copy in Good condition, in stock and dispatched within 2 business days. Add it to your cart and own this Kubrick classic on DVD.
| Format | DVD |
|---|---|
| Discs | 1 |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Released | June 12, 2001 |
| Run time | 2 hours and 16 minutes |
| Condition | Good Condition |
| Availability | In stock |
The A Clockwork Orange DVD is Warner Home Video's digitally restored and remastered 2001 release of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, issued as part of the Stanley Kubrick Collection on June 12, 2001. It is a single disc with a remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack.
This listing is a pre-owned copy in Good condition. It is a Region 1 DVD, so it plays in standard US and Canadian DVD players.
Stanley Kubrick wrote, produced and directed the film, adapting Anthony Burgess's novel. Malcolm McDowell leads the cast as Alex, with Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin, Warren Clarke and Michael Bates in supporting roles.
The film was originally rated X in the United States. Kubrick later trimmed about 30 seconds to secure an R rating, and this A Clockwork Orange DVD carries the R rating.
It received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Made on a modest budget, it became a major box office success, and in 2020 it was added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry.
Warner reissued its Kubrick titles in 2001 with restored picture and remastered sound. This version replaced the earlier 1999 Warner DVD of the film.
The picture is presented at 1.66:1 in letterboxed widescreen. It is not anamorphic, so on a widescreen TV you may want to use your player's zoom setting. Bonus material is limited to the theatrical trailer, which keeps the focus on the film itself.
For collectors building a Kubrick shelf, this single-disc release is a simple, affordable way to own the film on DVD. It pairs the remastered English 5.1 soundtrack with a French audio track and subtitles in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, which makes it easy to share with viewers who prefer another language.
Continue with Kubrick's Vietnam War drama Full Metal Jacket on Blu-ray, or browse our movies section for more classics. For the film's production history and reception, read the A Clockwork Orange (film) article on Wikipedia.
A Clockwork Orange DVD: Questions Buyers Ask
Will this DVD play in my US player?
Yes. This A Clockwork Orange DVD is Region 1, the standard for US and Canadian players.
Is this the uncut version?
It is the R-rated version, which Kubrick trimmed by about 30 seconds from the original X-rated release.
What extras are on the disc?
The theatrical trailer and scene access. There are no commentaries or documentaries on this edition.
Is this copy new or used?
It is a pre-owned copy in Good condition, covered by our 30-day return policy.
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This is the DVD edition, 1 disc.
Jeff Ryan –
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Be careful what you wish for!
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is one of Stanley Kubrick’s finest films, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess.
Produced in 1971, the film version of the story presents an England/ UK ravaged by street crime, committed mostly by youth gangs from the cities. Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is the main character and the narrator of the film. He’s a particularly vicious young hoodlum who leads three other “droogs” (friends) on nightly crime sprees of muggings, rapes, car thefts, beatings and street fights with rival gangs, using fists, boot kicks, chains, canes, knives and any available weapon except guns. Repeatedly skipping school, Alex is basically enabled to live this life by his parents and his juvenile bureau probation officer until he murders an old woman in her home during a burglary. His three “friends” leave him for the police and Alex goes to prison.
Since he’s an intelligent manipulator, Alex volunteers for an experimental behavior-altering program which will get him out of state custody in a matter of weeks instead of the twelve years he has remaining on his 14-year sentence. However, the young thug never imagined what would happen to him from the time he submitted himself to the Ludivico Institute’s “treatment” program, and its aftermath.
The late Michael Bates, a British actor who also played General Montgomery in “Patton”, gives an outstanding supporting performance as the harsh-tongued Chief Prison Officer (basically the top-ranking uniformed prison guard) in the film’s sequences involving Alex’s imprisonment.
This film is extremely graphic in its depiction of rape, violence, and sex, and it has a lot of nudity. It takes a hard, cynical look at life in the modern world. Set in an unmentioned but futuristic era, the viewer assumes the film is supposed to occur several decades from the time it was produced. I believe it to be one of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpieces.
Lobo Estepario –
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maelje –
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Still disturbing after all these years
“A Clockwork Orange” could have been the movie in the Stanley Kubrick canon known only as the film that followed “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Released in 1971, three years after that masterpiece, “Clockwork” faced the peril of comparison with what has become the greatest cinematic achievement of all time. In short, how could Kubrick follow “2001,” a film that was so incredibly good that one could not imagine a worthy successor?
He did it by making a film so different from its predecessor that any comparisons simply fall apart. “A Clockwork Orange” is its own animal — and “animal” it is, indeed. Whereas “2001” was about the exploration of space but also the exploration of humankind’s capacity for change, “Clockwork” was the at-times painful study of a young man caught between violent individualism and repressive society.
Malcolm McDowell is brilliant as Alex, the young “droog” who’s ever on the prowl for deviant sex, “ultraviolence” and, seemingly, all manner of wickedness for its own sake. The character’s relentlessly immoral (or amoral?) behavior stunned audiences at the time. The violent scenes — of various victims being raped, beaten, kicked, murdered — proved that, in 1971 at least, people had not yet become inured to extreme depictions of violence. Some of the film’s detractors called it sick. In UK, there was a considerable amount of copycat behavior, which so unnerved director Kubrick that he had the film pulled from distribution there — for quite a number of years.
In between those two extremes — those who would condemn the film, and those who seemingly condoned it by acting it out — was an audience that pondered the dilemma posed by Kubrick: Which is worse? An insistence upon individual freedom, which allows for such horrible behavior, or a society that may be going too far in trying to cleanse the populace of such villainy?
Alex, you see, is caught and subjected to a conditioning program that is supposed to make him incapable of committing any more crimes. But the effect of this behavior modification upon him is so drastic that he is effectively stripped of any free will at all.
It’s a diabolical film in part because it steadfastly refuses to provide any answers. Kubrick was a filmmaker, not a moralist, and so his audiences were left to decide, for themselves, which could be more cruel — the solitary human heart, or the collective conscience that sometimes grows so harsh that it, too, seems hopelessly corrupted.
This is a brilliant film. Do not see it, though, if you are easily offended. Upon its initial theatrical release, the film was one of a very few non-pornographic productions in those days to receive an X rating. Frankly, I’ve seen films far more graphically violent than this one that got tagged with an R, not an NC-17, the successor of the X. But it is true that there is something about this film — something about Alex’s gleefully nightmarish world — that disturbs the mind like nothing else.
Dean Noble –
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Stampy –
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