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At 10:20 PM 3/11/99 EST, you wrote:
>I recall reading that Kubrick himself pulled "Clockwork" because of all the
>copycat violence that the film was causing. I also think I remember reading
>that the censors banned the film, which still can't be shown in England to
>this day. Is this true.

That's what I've heard as well (seem to remember a Kubrick interview
discussing this) but the British Board of Film Classification has the
following info:

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
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 This work was classified "X" on 15/12/71.
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 When classified the work had an approved running time of 136m 25s.
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 The work had a submitted running time of 136m 25s.
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 Passed uncut.

 The distributor of this work is Columbia-Warner Dists.
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