Video: 'A Clockwork Orange' trailer

(Sunday, December 19, 1971, midnight PST) — The first public screening of A Clockwork Orange, a dystopian crime film about a charismatic delinquent who volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society’s crime problem, took place early this morning at a special midnight showing at Hollywood Pacific Theatre to benefit the Los Angeles International Film Exposition, also called Filmex.

Video: 'A Clockwork Orange - What it all Meant'

Adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel of the same name, the film stars Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri and Miriam Karlin.

It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.