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I'll buy it simply to display it on my shelf to show I am a sophisticated cineaste rather than my true self who just wants to see a good Betty Grable musical or Bob Hope comedy.

I love Kubrick but after about 20 minutes of Orange I walked out. It was such as assault. Imagine my dismay to find out Adreienne Corri who I loved so much in Renoir's magnificent The River was the woman who was so violently raped in the Kubrick film.

When a film is as gruesome as A Clockwork Orange my sensibilities are such that I can make it through about 20 minutes before I have to leave. Other such films have been Ulzana's Raid and Athena.

Weren't most films going 'soft' around 68/69? It seemed to have coincided with the collapse of the studio system and a newer younger audience being the majority of film patrons. Of course there was the fluke that was the Todd AO Airport.