"A CLOCKWORK, ORANGE" A Screenplay by + Stanley Kubrick Sepiowky Copyright New 1970CAST AND cREDT. Warner Bros. «+ A Kinney Company Presents . A Stanley Kubrick Production ‘A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Starring Malcolm McDowell as Alex : . Patrick Magee as Mr. Alexander : And Featuring in Alphabetical Order Michael Bates as Warren Clarke as John Clive as Adrienne Corri Carl Duering Paul Farrell Clive Francis Michael Gover Miriam Karlin James Marcus Aubrey Morris Godfrey Quigley Sheila Raynor Madge Ryan John Savident Anthony Sharp Philip Stone Pauline Taylor Margaret Tyzack Produced and Directed by Stanley Kubrick Executive Producers Max L. Raab and Si Litvinoff Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess Lighting Cameraman John Alcott Production Designer John Barry Art Directors Russell Hagg, P. Sheilds - Editor Bill Butler Sound Recordist John Jordan Sound Editor Brian Blamey Dubbing Mixers Bill Rowe, Eddie Haben Production Assistants Andros Epanimondi Margaret Adams Location Manager Terence Clegg Technical Advisor Jon Marshall Promotion Coordinator Michael Kaplan A Havk Film ee Chief Guard Dim Stage Actor Mrs. Alexander Dr. Brodsky Tramp Lodger Prison Governor Catlady Georgie Deltoid Prison Chaplain Mom Dr.. Branom Conspirator Minister Dad Poychiatrist Conspirator : Associate Producer Bernard Williams Assistant to Producer Jan Earlan Electronic Music Composed and Realised ‘by Walter Carlos ¥ “Overture to the Sun" Composed by Terry Tucker , "I Want to Marry A Lighthouse Keeper" "! Composed & performed by Erika Eigen # Costume Designer Milena Canonero * Continuity June Randall Consultant on Hair & Coloring Leonard of London Makeup Fred Williamson, Geo. Partleton# Barbara Daly : Hairdresser Olga Angelinetta Assistant Directors Derek Cracknell, Dusty Symonds 4ay INT. KOROVA MILKBAR “= NIGHT Alex: (Voice Over) There was me, that is cont” tabies chairs, nade of “ nude fibreglass figures. : Hypnotic atmosphere. Alex . Pete Georgie and . | Dim + teenagers at eo stoned on their i \' milkeplus their a feet resting on = 4 faces : crotches lips : of the sculptured: furniture. Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim and we sat in the Korova milkbar- trying to make up our rassoodocks what t6 do with the evening, — ~i i 2/3 OMITTED 1 continued - 1 Alex: (Voice Over)! The Korova milzbar : sold milkplus, milk plus vellocet or : ‘synthemese or drencron, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence. Our pockets were full of money so there was no need on that score but, as they ‘say, money isn't everything, 4 INT, PEDESTRIAN UNDERPASS TUNNEL - NICHT a "A tramp 2 iying in tunnel 7 singing. Tramnt' In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so. pretty “I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, Ao ‘she wheeled her wheelbarrow Through streets wide and narrow’... Shadows of ‘the . boys approaching fall across Tramp. Tramp: Crying cockles and mussels alive alive 0. Alive, alive 0 .., Alive, alive 0 ws Crying cockles and mussels alive, alive oO.cr . continued - 1 Alex: (Voice Over) One thing I could never stand wa to see a filthy, dirty eld drunkie, howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blerp, blerp in between, as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts, I could never stand to “gee anyone like that, whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was, The boys stop and applaud : him. Tramp: Can you me brothers. can you spare some cutter, Alex rams bis 6 stick into the . ; Tramp's stomach. The boys laugh. Tramp: Ob-hhh! cowards, I don't want to live anyway, not in a Go on, do me in. you bastard stinking world like this. Alex! Oh = and what's so stinking about it? Zeamp: It's a stinking world because there's no law and order any more. It's a stinking world because it.lets the. young get onto the old like you done, It's no world for an old man any more. What sort of a.world is £ at all? Men on the moon and men spinning around the earth: and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and‘order no more. i 3 fF 2Seen edad cae ea ee comma _ The Tramp ' starts singing again. Oh dear “land, I fought for thee and brought Tramp thee peace and victory, . Alex and gang move in and i start beating ae hi up on old tramp, INT, DERELICT CASINO = NIGHT Billyboy gang on stage | 7 5 tearing clothes +o off a sereaming girl Alex: (Voice Over) It was around by the derelict casino that we came across ‘ad ica Billyboy and his.four droogs. They were getting ready to perform a littlé of the old in-out, in-out on a weepy . young devotchka they had there, Alex and Gang step out of the shadows. Ales: Ho, Ho, Hoss. Well, if it isn't stinking. Billygoat Billyboy in poison. How are thou, — thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jolly thou,. Billyboy a snaps open a : switchblade : knife. ° Billyboy: Let's get ‘em, boys. The fight begins, chains, : knives, kicking boots. Police sirens: “Alex: The Police . come on, let's go «. come on, - “Alex and be: - rush out of : Casino. 6 OMITTED. 7 EXT/INT CAR = NIGHT - Fast driving shots. Swerving car, 5 2 “forcing other cars Ls “off the road, ° trying to hit pedestrians, ete. Lo real horrorshow - a nice, waim vibraty feeling - all through yobr guttivuts. “Soon it was.trees . [and dark, my Brothers, with real country dark . y, We fillied aropnd for a while with other * travellers of the night, playing hogs of the . road. Then we headed west, what we were after : now was the old surprise visit, that wes a real. kiek and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultra-violént.i r r 8.1 INT. Mra Mrs. Mrs Alex: there 2 A cottage on its own, on outskirts “is of a village. Bright moonlight. :. Cheery lights inside. Car pulls to a stop. Alex shushes his giggling boys and + gets out of the car., "HOME" ~ NIGHT Mr. Alexander typing. Bell rings. ” lexander: Who on earth could that be? Alexander: -I'll see. ae “ iMrs. Alexander a’ good-looking red head . ina : red jumper suit. Ale der: Yes? Who is it? will you please help, been a terrible accident, " Excuse ne, urs She opens the door on the chain : cand peeps out.8a continued ~ 1 Alex: My friend road bleeding to telephone for an Mrs. Alexander telephone, You' Alex: But, Mrs. Mr. Alexander: Mrs. Alexander: there's been an telephone, Mr, Alexander: Mrs. Alexander: Alex: Thank you in in the middle +s lying in the middle of the death. Could I please use your ambulance? I'm sorry. We don't have a. 11 have to go somewhere else. it's a matter of life and death, From inside the sound of clack clack clacky clack “elack clackity clackelack of Ay Alexander typing - stops. Who is it, dear? There's a young man here. He says accident, He wants to use the Then you'd better let him in. Wait a minute. 2 Mri Mr Alexander . opens door, | c sayings, I'm sorry, we don't usually let of the night. 2 - a #19 Alex and boys have put on their “masks and rush . so inte house, is / carrying and dragging : Mrs, Alexander “along with them, Int, " OME" = NIGHT They go roaring in, Fay ie ‘Mr. Alexander is kicked ‘in the face and goes down. Georgie leaps on him, Pete jumps up and down . a Sie oe on the settec. Dim grabs hold of Mrs. Alexander, ao Alex whistles i piercingly. Alex: Right, Pete, Check the rest’ of the house, Alex turns to Din who ca Words the struggling Mrs. Alexander, i t Bae Dim sets her down but ~ holds her firmly. Alex starts to sing - yo) Singin! in the Rain", ae Accompanying it with a kind of ‘ tap dance, wee ‘sh aba es <continued ~'1 2 Alex: (singing) I'm singin’ in the rain ..- He kicks Mr, Alexander accenting the lyrics. 1 (singing) Just singin' in the rain He clubs Mrs. Alexander with stick, in time to * the music, : (singing) What a glorious fecling, I'm happy Mis He pushes a rubber ball into Mrs. Alexander's saosin mouth and binds it with i Re sellotape. Alex: (singing) I'm laughing at clouds so dark up abovd. The suns in my heart and I'm ready for love. Let the stormy clouds chase.. : He kicks Mr, Alexander again, . ; Alex: (singing) Everyone fron the place Come on-with the rain, 5 We puts ball in Mr. Alexander's mouth and sellotapes it, Alex:. (singing) I've a smile on my face. es I'll walk down the lanes, to a happy refrain, % I'm singing., just singin’ in the rain,10 11 continued ~ 2 . : é He knocks down the book ~ os cases and moves to Mrs, Alexander “being -held by Dim. Starts to repeat on song he cuts slowly up ‘each leg of her cat suit, until she is naked. * This coincides with the song finishing. 7 Me turns to Nr, Alexander, . i Alex: Viddy well, my little Brother, Viddy well. OMITTED . ' “INT. KOROVA MILKBAR - NIGHT The boys enter yawning. . Alex: (Votée Over) We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small “energy expenditure, 0 my Brothers, so we got rid of the auto'and stopped off at the Korova for a nightcap. Dim moves over \ 9 tip milk machine and speaks to the “statue of the nude girl. Dim: Hello, Lucy, -had a busy night?Puts money in machine. Pardon me, Luce, le 3 5 : : : He raises glass to breast, pulls red ‘i Lo Yegs. Milk spurts i eae into glass. oe ‘of tourists, \ laughing and govoreeting. wicked world one bit, Then the dise on the “stereo twanged off and out, and in the short : silence before the next one came on, suddenly cane with a burst of sinning, and it was like for a moment, 0 my brothers, some great bird had flown into the Milkbar and T felt all the nalenky little hairs on ‘my plott standing endwise, and the shivers crawling up like slow malenky lizards and then down again, Because I knew what she sang. m: We've been working hard, too. Takes glass. handle between her :* Dim joins the others. Alex looks at ai party < =) Alext (Voice Over)’ There were, sone sophistes from the TV sthdios around the corner, The devotchka was smecking away, and not caring about the It was a bit from the glorious 9th, by Ludwig van.> ae continued ~ 2 . 7 Dim makes a a: 2°." qip-erump followed “S. py'a dog howl followed by two t iol: fingers -pronging % twice in the air : followed by a clouny guffaw. : Alex brings his stick down smartly on : 3 Dim's legs. Dim: What did you do that for? - For being a bastard vith no manners a: Alex dook of an idea how to comport yourself publicwise, © my brother. ‘ Bim: I don't like you'should do what you done, “And I'm not your brother no more and wouldn't want to be. Watch that. Ale: Do watch that, 0 Dim, if to continuo, to be on live thou dost wish. . Dim: Yarbles, great bolshy yarblockos to you, I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva any time, not “having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. “It stand to reason I won't have it. : i: A nozh scrap any time you say. Alex Dim weakens.ll: 12 13 continued ~ 3 Dim: Doobidoob .., a bit tired maybe, everybody is. A long night for growing malchicks ., best not to say nore, Bedways is rightways now, ’so best ‘we go homeways and get a bit of spatchka. Right, right. INT. ALEX FLATBLOCK, MAIN LOBBY ENTRANCE - NIGHT. : Alex passes a mural in the hall. Nude men and women Their massive stylized bodies further : embellished. and ° decorated by handy _ Lt pencil and ballpoint. ' “The elevator door ; is buckled, INT, ALEX FLAT - NIGHT : Alex pees in toilet, Alex goes into . his roon. 1 Tosses his loot into a draver,- full of money, + ‘wristwatches, leameras, ete. ‘ Fifty small 2 " Ypudspeakers cover one wall. :13 ‘continued = 1 He puts his pet boa ‘constrictor . on tree branch mounted on the wall, above four Christ figures who ‘have their arns intertwined like a chorus line. 5 - He puts a cassette into the tape player, A heavy shockwave of sound ~ Beethoven's 9th. (Woice Over)” It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now to give it the perfect ending was a bit of the old Ludwig van, ' . : Music starts, Alex: (Voice Over) Then, brothers, it came, © bliss, bliss and heaven, oh it was . gorgedusness and. gorgeosity made flesh, The trombones crunched redgold under ny bed, , and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise, silver-flamed and there by the door the timps [rolling through my guts and out again, crunched like candy thunder, It was like a bird of . = rarest spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a space ship, gravity all nonsense now.’13 14 continued ~ 2 i. B Alex: (Voice over) As I slooshied, 1 . knew such lovely pictures. There were vecks and ptitsas lying on the ground screaming for mercy and I was smecking all over my rot and grinding my boot into their tortured litsos and there were naked devotchkas ripped: and ereeching against walls and I plunging like a shlaga into them. . INT, ALEX'S BEDROOM ~ DAY _ He is asleep. Thé boa curled up “at his feet. . “4 j There is a cg : knock on a the door. = door a witha al aie Alex: What d'you want? Em: It's past eight, Alex, you don't want to be late for school,.son. Alex: Bit of a pain in the gulliver, Mum, Leave us be and I'll try and sleep it off ... then I'll be as right ao dodgers .for this after. You've not been to school all week, son. got to pet fit, Alex: I've got to rest, Mum otherwise I’m liable to miss a lot more school. ¥ Eeee’s.. I'll put your breakfast in the oven. I've got to be off myself now. Alex: Alright, Mum... have a nice day at the factory14.2 * Deltos. INT. KITCHEN ~" DAY : : ee Pee Ss. sitting at i breakfast table. : oe Em enters, ; Em: He's not feeling too good again this morning, y 5 a a Yes, I heard, D'you know what time he got in ee last night? Em: No, I don't know, luv, I'd taken ny sleepers; Pee: I wonder where exactly it is he goes to work of Em: Well, like he says, it's mostly odd things he does helping like here. and there, as it might be. INT. EM'S BEDROOM > DAY Alex cones out - of his room and finds o P.R. Deltoid sitting on bed in parents’ room. Alex: Hi, hi, hi theré, Mr, Deltoid, funny surprise to see you here. " Ah, Alex boy, awake at last, yes? I-met your mother on the way to work, yes? She gave me the key. She said sonething about a pain somewhere... Hence not at school, yes?continued = 1 Alex: A rather intolerable pain in the head, brother, -oir, I think it should be clear by this afterlunch. Deltoid: Oh, or certainly by this evening, yes? The evening's a great time, isn't it, Alex boy? Alex: A-cup of the old chai, Deltoid: -No time, no time, yes. ce t Alex sits next tp him. 5 To what do. I owe this extreme pleasure, sir. Anything wrong, sir? ji Deltoid "playfully" gtabs Alex's Deltoid: Wrong, why should you think of anything being wrong, have you been doing something you shouldn't. Yes? es Gee He shakes Alex's hair. Alex: Just a manner of speech, sir. ‘ toid: Well, yes, it's just 2 manner of speech from your Post Corrective Adviser to you that you watch out, little Alex, ° wt He puts his” . arm’ round Alex's shoulder.| { i | i sbeen up to some nastiness, There was a bit of nastiness last night, yes. Some very extreme nastiness, yes. - anything about anybody as usual, but I'm warning you, é Ce Deltoid: Because next time it's going to’be. the barry place and all my work ruined, If you've no respect for your horrible self, you at least: might have some for ne who'’se sweated over you. - He slaps Alex ‘on’ the knee. Deltoid: A big black mark I tell you for every one we don't reclaim, A confession of failure for everyone of you who ende up in the stripy hole. + Alex: I've been doing nothing I shouldn't, sir. The < millicents have nothing on me; brother, sir, I mean, * at Deltoid pulls Alex down : fon the bed. Cut out this-clever talk about millicents ‘Just because the Police haven't picked you up lately doesn't, as you very well know, mean that you've not Deltoi A few of a certain Billyboy's friends were ambulanced . off late, yes, Your name was mentioned, the word’ got thru to me by the usual channels, Certain friends of yours were named also, Oh, nobody can prove little Alex, being a good friend to you as always, thi one man in this sore and sick community who wants to ave you from yourself, .14,2 continued - 3 +. "y. cee 7 Deltoid makes a “ geab for’ Alex's joint but finds his hand instead. Alex laughs . detisively and rises. Deltoid distractedly reaches for- +2) @ glass of water on the night table, and fails to notice a set of false teeth soaking in’ then.. He drinks from } the glas The clink | { i r so of the teeth i | i | sounding like ! " “fee-cubes. Deltoid: What gets into you all? We study the problem. We've been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our. studies. You've got a good home here, good loving Parents, you've got not too bad of a brain. Is it some devil that crawls inside of you? ‘Alex: Nobody's got anything on me, brother, sire I've been out of the rookers of the millicents for + °a long time now, : . : | i i Deltoi That's just what vorrics me, A bit too 7) long to be reasonable. You're about due now by ny reckoning, that's why I'm warning you, little ‘Alex, i te keep your handsome young proboseis out.of the dirt. { Do I make myself clear?eA eye . “et : i ope oc z Shes + Alex: As an unmuddied lake, sir. Clear as an: azure sky of deepest summers” You can rely on me, 00 . ; eg Deltoid drinks 3 S275 again but ' . +. “her this time ee sees the teeth in the \ : glass. , : be He groans and retches. 15 INT, MUSTG BoOTICK - DAY : Alex enters, Two pretty ! i : al . suas") miero-boppers, x ie ~ ; oMarty ané : = ot : “ sonietta, . 4 uf : a sucking phallic a ‘ Lo fee sticks. 3 : : 3 Alex: Pardon me, brother, I ordered this two weeks ago. Could you see if it's arrived? . é Clerk: 0.K, I'll see if it's in, ¢ Clerk exits. Alex turns to . “a the girls. 2 m0 Alex: Pardon me, ladies. Ne steps in ' 7 : between them and pocs through the motions, looking through the records.1s 16, 17 18 19 continued - 1 Alex: Enjoying it then, my darling? ... A bit cold and pointless isn't it, my lovely ... What's happened to yours, my little sister? |; | Marty giggles. Marty: Who you getten bratty, Goggly Gogol? Johnny Zhivego? —The-Heaven Seventeen? Alex: What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little * ave pitiful portable picnic players. ‘Come with Uncle and hear all proper. Wear angel trumpets and vited devil trombones. . You are OMITTED i INT. ALEX'S BEDROOM - DAY . “the two girl. naked, jumping up and down on Alex's still . unmade bed zonked by the booming,- all engulfing sound of Alex's incredible Hi-Fi, : ‘ OMITTED . INT, ALEX'S FLATBLOCK LOBBY HALL ~ DAY Alex finds the pang waiting for hin. Alex: Hi, hi, hi, there. All Three Well, hello:. 19 continued - 1° He are her. He have arrived! Hooray! , Alex: Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well, To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit? Georgie rises. Georsie: We got worried, There we were waiting and drinking away at the old knify Moloko and you had ‘not turned up and we thought you might have been like offended by something or other, so round we come to your bode. . 5 7 ; a a 5 | 5 Alex: Appy polly loggies. I had something of a pain in the gulliver so had to sleep, I was not awakened when I gave orders for wakening. Sorry about the pain, Using the gulliver too much s like, eh? Giving orders and discipline and that perhaps," ‘ eh? You sure the pain's gone? You sure you'll not be happier back up in bed? —. Alex: Let's get things nice and sparkling clear.” This sarcasm, if I may call it such, does not become you, 0 my little brothers, As I am your droog and leader, I am entitled to know what go. on, ch? Now then, Dim, what does that great big horsy gape of a grin portend? All right, no more picking on Dim, brother. That's part of the new way. ” Alex: New way? What's this about a new way? There's becn some very large talk behind my sleeping back, and Ro.error. Let me hear more, oacontinued ~ 2. Georgie: Well, we go round shop crasting and .the Like, coming out with a pitiful rookerful of moncy + each. Dim: Pitiful rookerful .... : Georsic: And there's Will the English in the Muscleman coffee mesto saying he can fence anything that any malchick tries’ to crast. Cy 3 Yeah Will the English. Georgie: The shiny stuff. The ice, The big, bin big money is available's what Will-the English says. money. Alex: And what will you do with the big, big money?——~ Have you not everything you need? If you need a S motor-car,, you pluck it from the trees, If you nced pretty polly, you take it, . . 3 Geornie: Brother, you think and talk sometimes like a |) little child, Tonight we pull a mansize crast, iw Alex: Good. Real horrorshow. Initiative comes to ¢ them as waits, I've taught you much, my little droogies. Now tell me what you have in mind, Georgie Boy. Georgic: Oh, the old moJoko~plus first, would you not say. Bi Moloko-plus. Georgie: Something to sharpen us up, but you especially® We have the start. ce igThe Gang come out of the , . .. flatblock and walk along the Marina, Alex: (Voice Over) As we walked along the flatblock marina, I vas calm on the outside but thinking all the time, so now it was to be Georgie the General,’ saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless, grinning bulldog. But, suddenly, I viddied that thinking vas for Le the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones ‘ 7 _Use like inspiration and what Bog sends, for now it was lovely music that came to ny aid, and I viddied at once what to do. There was 2 window open with a stereo on, | Alex clubs Georgie into water 3 : 4 ++. /IN SLOW MOTION : 4 3 = 3 | with his stick. Dim swings chain. : Alex ducks. Boe : : Dim goes inte water. : - Alex kneel hands behind back, takes knife fron sword stick, : By offers hand to help Loo : : : Dim, and slashes “Dim when he gets it. :cr) 20 20.1 continued - 1 Dim falls back into the water, Alex laughs. INT, DUKE OF NEW YORK PUB. The four -boys sit round table. : Alex: (Voice Over) I had not put into any of Dim's main cables and so, with the help of a clean tashtook,-the red, red kroovy soon stopped, and it did not take long to quieten the two wounded ‘soldiers, down in the snug of the Duke of New York. Now they knew who was Master and Leader. Sheep, thought I, . but a real leader knows always when like to give and show generous to his unders. Alex: Well, now we're back to where we were. Yes? Just like before and all forgotten, Right, right; right. : All Boys: -Right. Right. Right, . " Alex: Well, Georgie Boy, This idea you've got for. tonight. Well, tell us about it then, si cornie: Not tonight - not this nochy, Alex: Come, come, come, Georgie Boy. You're a big strong chelloveck 1: e@ us all, We're not little children are we, Georgie Boy? What then didst thou in thy mind have?1 { { + 20.1 | { I i 21 2161 oar nr oO “Confrontation, Georgie backs down, Geor It's this Health Farn, A bit out of the town. Isolated, It's* rined ‘by this like very rich ptitsa who lives there with her cats, The place is shut down for a week and she's completely on her own, and it's full up with like gold and silver and jewels. Alex: Tell me, more, Georgie Boy. INT, CATLADY HOUSE Catlady doing yoga : exercises. Room is full of cats. é Doorbell rings. Gatiady: -(séfely to herself) Oh, shit. She goes to door, EXT, CATLADY HOUSE Catlady: Who's there? Alex: Excuse me, missus, can you please help? : There's been a terrible accident, Can I please use your telephone for an ambulance? Catlady: I'm frightfully sorry. There is a telephone in the Public House about; a mile down the road. I Suggest you use that.21.1 continued - 1 ee 1 1 { : i n : es - | | Alex: But, missus, this is an emergency. It's a matter of life and death. Me friend's lying in the middle of the road bleeding to death. ' : Gatlady: I... I'm very sorry, but I never open. I'm ; very sorry but I never open the door to strangers after dark, Alex: Very well, madam. 1 suppose you can't be blamed for being suspicious with so many scoundrels and rogues of the night about. Alex walks away from door, then ducks into the . og . : : bushes where : tf 7 7 the others are : ' hiding. SPD they put on ! ow their maskies and. follow Alex : round to the rear . . i of the house. . Alex: Dim, bend down, (Alex points to an upstairs window) I'm gonna get in that window and open the front door: ; : He climbs up * drain-pipe to the bathroon window.22 INT CATLADY HOUSE, 4 The Catlady ‘enters ‘and dials a number, Gatlady: Hullo, Radlett Police Station. Good evening. It's Miss Weathers at Noodmere Health Farm, Look, I'm frightfully sorry to bother you but something rather odd has happened. s.., Well, it's probably nothing at all, but you never know... Well, a young man rang fhe bell asking to use the telephone .... He said there had been some kind of accident. The thing that caught my attention was what he said - the wotds he used, they sounded exactly like what was quoted in the papers this morning in connection with the writer Well, just a few minutes ago ... Well, if you think that's necessary, but, well, I'm quite sure he's gone avay and his wife who were assaulted last night . snow. Oh .. alright. Fine. Thank you very much. Thank you,. . 5 She puts phone down, turns and nearly jumps out of her leotard : : when she sees Alex i * in the doorway. Alex: Hi, hi, hi there, at last we meet. Alex: Our brief govoreet thru the letter hole was not, shall we say, satisfactory, yes.continued = 1 tlady: Now listen here, you little bastard,: just you turn around and you walk out of here.the sane way as you came in, Alex eyes a giant white, fibre glass . phallic sculpture on the table beside hin. Alex: Naughty, naughty, naughty, you filthy old soomka. Catlady important work of art, ‘What the bloody hell do you , Not No Don't touch it, That's a very want? - Alex: You see, madam, I am part of an international students’ contest to see who can get the most points "for selling magazines. e Catlady’ Cut the shit, sonny, and get out of here before you get yourself into sone very serious trouble. ’ “He rocks the giant phallus ~ which has a special weight swinging inside causing it to oe swing up and down with an . eccentric motion. I told you to leave it alone. Now get out of Catlad here before I throw you out, wretched slumny bedbug. 7: houses. I'll teach you breaking into real people Get out!22° | continued - 2 She grabs up a bust of Beethoven and rushes at ae Alex. He grabs the giant phallic sculpture. Circling, Alex fends : ws off her mad rushes : with skilful jabs “of the giant x phallus. “She ducks under and : { vo clobbers hin with the - heavy bust of Beethoven, He goes down, .. i> ‘pulling her off balance “and they both wind up ' on the floor, $ In the struggle, Alex bashes her. with the phallus. He. A ‘ Distant police sirens, Poe He exits, e * "23 EXT. CATLADY'S HOUSE ~ NIGHT. : Alex rushes out. : : Dim and the others 7 : are waiting. Alex: Come on. Let's go, the Police are coming. +24 Dim smashes Alex “in the face with a wo full milk bottle, si He goes down. The others ‘run way, ‘laughing. Alex: (screaming) You bastards... bastards. INT, POLICE HQ - NIGHT Inspector takes out ' cigarette and G lights up. 2 x f Inspector: Right, Right, Tom, we'll have to show our little friend, Alox, here that we know the law, too, but that knowing the lav isn't everything. He nods to Fatneck. Fatneck: That's a nasty cut you've got there, little Alex. Spoils ... all your beauty, Who gave you that then ... eh.. eh... le presses ree Alex's nose, inflicting great pain, Alex sinks to his knees, : Alex: Ow... what was that for, you bastard? Fatneck: That was for your lady victim, You ghastly wretched scoundrel,24 continued = 1 Alex grabs his balls, r ca “Alex is beaten by the other cops. Inspector exits {to outside office 5 fe here Sergeant * 2 sits, sipping De ; a cup of tea, Deltoid has just: ‘ entered. 7 8 Inspector: Sergeant, 2 Eee eg + : Serseant: Sir, aa : @ Inspector: Ah, good evening, Mr. Deltoid, “y Deltoid: Evening, Inspector. Serreant:; Would you like your tea now, sir? Inspector: "No, thank you, Sergeant. We'll have it later. May I have some’paper towels, please. Sergeant: Yes, sir. 7 Insvector: We're interrogating the prisoner. now. Perhaps you'd tare to come inside. Deltoid: Thank you very much. oscD 24 continued ~ 2 They nove into Interrogation Roon. Alex is on the floor in'the corner covered with blood. Deltoid Evening, Sergeant, Evening, all. Dear, dear, dear, this boy does look a mess,,doesn't he? Just look -at the state of hin. t : young nightmare\like. Fatneck: | Love! Inspector: Violence makes violence, He resisted his lawful arrestors. Deltoid: Well, it's happened, Alex boy, yes. Just as I thought it would, yes. Dear, dear, dear, Well, this .. is the end of the line for me_s++ the end of the line, yes. : Alex: It wasn't me, brother, sir. Speak up for me,” sit, for I'm not so bad, I was led on by the treachery of others, sir. : . Inspector: Sings the roof off lovely, he does that. Bids lex: Where are my stinking traitorous droogs, Get them before’ they get away, It was all their idea, brothers. They forced me to do it. I'm innocent. ki Deltoid: You are now a murderer, little Alex. A murderer, yes.continued ~ 3 . victim has died. Deitoid HELICOPTER’ VIEWS OF PRISON Not true, sir, It was only a slight tolchock. She was breathing, I swear it, Deltoid: I have just come back from the hospital. You tried to frighten me, sir, admit so, sir. is some new form of torture, Say it, brother, it will torture you to madness, Don't mind us. We'll hold him down, He must, be a great disappointment to you, sir. #Deltoid ‘spits in-Alex's face, Alex: (Voice Over) This is the real weepy'and like tragic part of the story beginning, 0 my brothers and only friends: After a trial vith judges and a jury, and some very hard words spoken against: your friend and humble narrator, he was sentenced to 14 years in Staja No. 84F among smelly perverts and hardened prestoopnicks, the shock sending my dadda beating his bruised and kroovy rookers against unfair Bog in his feaven, and my mum boohoohooing in her-mother's gricf at her only child and son of her boson, like letting everybody down real horrorshow., — - a. Your It will be your own torture, I hope to od Eatneck: If you'd care to give him a.bash in the chops,24.2: INT. PRISON CHECK-IN ROOM - DAY A bell rings and a warder goes and - unlocks first a wooden door and then a barred door, Guard: Morning, One in from Thames, Mister. Warder: One in from Thames, sir. Ghicf Cuard: Right. Open'up, Mister. Marder: Yes, sir, : : . einen He opens door and steps back. Alex OBE asc and another Warder : move to Reception desk. b Good morning, sir. - Committal sheet. Chief Cuard: (who shouts everything) Thank you, Mister. o signs sheet.! Namet Alexander ‘de Large. 7 Alex Ghicf Guard: You are now in U.M. Prison Parkmoor and from this moment you will address all prison officers Nane? as sieae 24.2 Alex: Alexander de Large, air, : : Chief Guard: Alex: Murder, Chief Guard Chief ward Crime? sir, Right. Take the cuffs off him, Mister, The cuffs are removed, You are now 655321 and it is your duty to memorise that number, Chief Guard: Marder: Thank you, Chief, Chief Guard: Chief Guard: Alex on the floor directly behind vou, 655321? . Yes, sir, He hands clipboard back to Warder, WES Beton. Thank you, Mister, Well done. o2 en Let the officer out, Officer exits. Right, Empty your pockets! Alex moves to desk and leans on it, : : Are you able to see that white line paintcontinued - 2 Chief Guard: Then your ‘toes bei Side of ititt | Alex moves ; back behind t fhe line. (quietly) veg, siz. Guard: Right.’ Carry on. Alex tosses” a bar of _ghocolate on = the desk. By te aS Chief Guard: Pick that up and put it down properly. Alex does so, and continues aaah to empty his pockets. Nl Chief Guard One bar of chocolate, One bunch of keys. = with white metal ring. One packet of cigarettes. Two we plastic ball pens - one black, one red. One pocket § comb = black plastic, One address book - imitation a red leather. One ten penny piece, One white metal vristlet watch, "Timawiist" on a white metal expanding bracelet. Anything else. in your pockets? Alex: No, sir. Chicf Cuard: Right. Sign here for your valuable property. + Alex signs : :24.2 continued - 3 ¢ 7 Chief Guard: The chocolate and cigarettes you ] ; brought in - you lose that as you’ are now convicted, i @ “Now go over to the table and get undressed, Alex walks to table and + undresses. 7 i . : Chief Guard moves to table with his clipboard. Ghief Guard: Now then, were you in Police custody : this morning? Alex: No, sir, Check-In: One jacket - blue pinstripe, Chief Guard: Prison custody? Alex: Yes, sir. On remand, sir. Check-In: One neck tic - blue, Chief Guard: Religion? - | Alex: C of E, sir. Do you mean Church of England? i : Chief Guard : sir, Church of England, sir, an i Chicf Guard: Brown hair, is it? Ale: Fair hair, sir, chi ward: Blue eyes?cS 2442 continued = 4 4 t ce Alex: Blue eyes, yes, sir. Ghicf Guard: Do you wear eye glasses or contact lenses? Alex: No, sir.! Check-In: One shirt’- blue, collar attached. Chief Guard: Have you been receiving medical treatment for any serious illness? Alex: No, sir. Cheek worn, Int One pair of boots = black leather, zippered; Chief Guard: Have you ever had any mental illness? Chief Guard: Do you wear any false teeth or any false Limbs? Alex: No, sir. Check-In: One pair of trousers ~ blue pinstripe. Chief Guard: wave you ever -had any attacks of fainting or dizziness? * . i Alex: No, sir, : : . “ Check-In: One pair of socks = black. Chief Guard: Are you an Epileptic? Ale: 9 avian25 -eontinued - 5.” Chicf Guar, Gheck-In: One p. waistband. Ar homosexual? Alex: No, sire air of underpants - white with blue @ you now, or ever have been, a Chicf Guard: Right. The mothballs, Mister. Check-In: Mothballs, sir. £ Chief Guard: Now then, Face the wall. Bend over and touch your toes, Ghief Guard: Alex: No, sir. ch Alex: No, sir. Chief Guard: Lice? Chict Guard: Through.there for a bath, Alex: Yes, sir. INT. PRISON CHAPEL - DAY. \. Chief Guard | Mmmanma...,. any venereal disease? d: Crabs? . inspects Alex's anus with a penlight, Priest, in pulpit - big rough Bee terns once Qo 6cr an Priest T say like yourselves ~ scream in endless and unendurable et continued - 1 Convict audience. Alex sits apart tending an overhead projector. priest: “Ivask you friends. What's it going to be then? Is it going to be in and out of institutions Like thie? Or more in than out for most of you? OF are you going to attend the divine word and realise the punishmént that avaits unrepentant sinners in the next world as well as this. A lot of idiots you ere & selling your birthright for a saucer of cold porridge. The thrill of theft, violence, I ask you friends, is it worth it? Thé urge to live easy. When we have = * undeniable proof ~ yes, ny friends, incontrovertible evidence that Hell exists. I know, I know, ny friends. I have been informed in visions that there is a place hotter-than any human flane of like garkér than any prison, i fire, where unrepentant criminals, sinners yourselves s+ Si Saas A convict burps. : A1L laugh. i. : ao oe of hihi Don't you laugh, damn you, don't you laugh. Their nostrils choked with the smell of filth, Their skins agony. their mouths crannell with burning ordure. rotting and peeling... A fireball spinning in their I knowes. Oh yes, screaming guts. I know. :WA convict lets rip some ‘lip’ music ~ Prrrrrrrp, There is laughter. Chicf Guard moves forward - points. Chicf Guard: I saw you, 920537. I saw you, + Gonvict: Up yours, mate, Chief Guard: Just you wait, 744678. One on the turnip coming up for you, } ° Priest: Quiet, my friends. Quiet, Quiet,.1 say. ¢ We will now sing Hymn 258 in the Prisoner's Hymnal. Piano starts up ‘and Alex starts up overhead projector which displays the words of the hymn, Chief Cuard: ‘Show a little reverence, you bastards. Quiet! a . Convicts and all : oo start to sing. : I was a wandering sheep -I did not love ws. ward: Sing up damn you. Louder, Sing up.25 continued ~ 3 se the fold I did not love my shepherd's voice, I would not be controlle< Chief Guard: Cone on, sing up, damn you. Singing: I was a wayward child 2600 INT. ‘ I did not love my home I did not love ny Father's voice I loved afar to roan. “Alex: (Voice Over) It had not been edifying, indeed not, being.in this hell hole and hunan zoo for two years now, being kicked and tolchocked by brutal warders, and meeting . leering crim nals and perverts, ready to dribble all over @ luscious young malchick like your story-teller. : 2 6 : PRIEST'S LIBRARY .- DAY Bee Alex reading the Bible. Alex: (Voice Over) It was my rabbit to help the prison charlie with the Sunday service. He was a bolshy great burly bastard, but he was very fond of myself, me béing very young, and also now very interested in the big book. Priest walks by «+ and nods pleasantly. ‘ ‘27 2761 28 Alex: (Voice Over) It had been arranged by the prison charlie, as part of my further education to read him the Bible. ” . 1 didn't so much like the latter part of é the book which is more like all preachy talking, than fighting and the old in-out. é I liked the parts where these old yahoodies tolchock each other and drink their Hebrew vino, then getting onto the bed with their wives' handmaidens, That kept me going. BIBLE FANTASY - FIGHTING - DAY, Biblical fighting shot. : . Alex slashing away. . - ‘Blood spurting. HANDMATDEN, FANTASY IN TENT ~ DAY Alex lying with three semi-nude | handmaidens. EXT. BIBLICAL’ STREET Christ being whipped on by Alex, dressed as a Legionary. Alex: Move on there, Move on.28 continued - 1 Alex: (Voice Over) I read all about Q _ the scourging and the crowning with thorns and all that, and I could viddy myself helping in and even taking charge of the tolchocking and the the height nailing in, being dressed i of Roman fashion. 26 LO Back to the Library. . Alex sits with his eyes closed. Priest comes over ‘ahd squeezes his” , Shoulder, . 4 i t : ‘ . . Alex looks up at 3 -him and smiles, # Priest: (Reading from Alex's Bible) Seek not to be ass like evil men, neither desire to be with them, because their minds studieth robberies and their lips speak deceits. Alex: If thou lose hope being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished. Priest: Fine, my boy, fine, fine, ¢ Alex: Father, I have tried, have I not? . ~ 4 Priest: You have, my son. i 5 ars 1 Alex: I've done ny best, have I not?*“ scrap of newspaper in the workshops and the newspaper continued - 1 Priest: Indeed. - ‘ Ale: And, Father, I've not been guilty of any institutional infractions, have 12 Priest: You certainly have not, 655321. You've been very helpful and you've shown a genuine desire to reform, Alex: Father - may I ask you a question in private? Priest: Certainly, my son, certainly. Is there somcthing troubling you, ny son, Don't be shy to speak up. Remember, I know of the’ urges that can trouble young men deprived of the society of women. . i Alex: No, Father, It's not that, Father, It's about i this new thing they're all talking about. About this new treatment that gets you out of prison in no time at all and: mdkes sure you never get back in again. as - . a Priest: Where did you hear about this? Whose been ~ J talking about these things? O% Alex: These things get around, Father, Two Warders talk as it might be, and somebody can't help overhearing what they say. Then somebody picks up @ tells all about it. How about putting me in for this new treatment, Father? I take it you are referring to the Ludovico Technique?-26 act of. goodness. continued = 2 Alex: I don't know what it's called, Father, ‘all I know is that it gets you out quickly and makes - sure you never get in again. Priest: That is not proven, 655321. In fact, it is only in the experimental stage at this moment. : Alex: But it is being used, isn't it, Father? Priest: It has not been used yet in this prison. The Governor has grave doubts about it and I have heard that there are very serious dangers involved. Alex: I don't care about the danger, Father. -I just * want to be good, I want the rest of my life to be one Priest: The question is, whether or not this technique _ really makes a man good. Goodness comes from within, . Goodness is chosen, When a man cannot choose he~ ceases to be a many 5 i. Alex: I don't understand the whys and wherefores, Father I only know I want to be good. a ° 5 Priest: Be patient, my son, and put your trust in the Lord. . Alex: Instruct thy son-and he shall refresh thee and shall, give delight to thy soul. Priest: Amen. They cross themsclvcs,