I too am running a bit late in responding to this thread, but my

understanding of Kubrick's decision to withdraw the film stemmed more from

repeated death threats against his family (by rightwing 'moral watchdogs')

and a long, spurious legal defence mounted by thugs to try and argue in

court cause-and-effect after watching the film and then going out and

beating people's heads in (in the UK and Australia, at least)

 

Mick Broderick

Universiy of Technology, Sydney

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On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, C.Kay Weaver wrote:

 

> Sorry - I hadn't read all my mail before talking about the unavailability of

> Clockwork Orange in the UK, Tony Williams obvious has a handle on the

> facts, I guess

> my assumptions are the effect of almost being too young to remember

> anything other

> than a Tory government in the UK.  But it is interesting to find that a lot

> of us

> think the film *banned* rather than withdrawn by Kubrick himself.

>

> C. Kay Weaver

> Department of Film and Television Studies,

> University of Waikato

> Hamilton, New Zealand.

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