Read more: The 31 Scariest Movie Scenes Ever McDowell said he was a little shocked to learn that so many audiences only responded to the violence in "A Clockwork Orange" when it was first released.

Alex DeLarge is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental ...

In it, Burgess also addressed the controversy surrounding director Stanley Kubrick's 1971 movie adaptation of A Clockwork Orange. The cult film, starring Malcolm McDowell as Alex, the violence ...