"Being the adventures of a young man...who couldn't resist pretty girls...or a bit of the old ultra-violence...went to jail, was re-conditioned...and came out a different young man...or was he?" This Friday, September 25th, 8 p.m. at MADCAP Theaters: Bookmans presents a FREE Fight Censorship film screening of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, based on the controversial classic by Anthony Burgess, and starring Malcolm McDowell. Bookmans will be on hand to raffle off Fight Censorship t-shirts and gift cards.

Fight Censorship trivia about A Clockwork Orange:

1. "One of only two movies rated X on its original release (the other being Midnight Cowboy (1969)) to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards." (IMDb)

2. "The film was withdrawn voluntarily by Stanley Kubrick from the United Kingdom after being criticized as too violent. Kubrick has stated that the film would be released there only after his death. It was. One of the reasons why Stanley Kubrick withdrew the movie from distribution in the U.K. were, according to his wife Christiane Kubrick, several death threats that his family received because of the film." (IMDb)

3. "Rated #2 of the 25 most controversial movies of all time. Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2006. Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 25 Most Dangerous Movies". In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked it as the #70 Greatest Movie of All Time." (IMDb)

4. "The scene where Alex has sex with the two girls in fast forward wasn't done as an artistic statement, Kubrick just sped the scene up so he could get it past the censors and the MPAA." (Movie Mistakes)

5. "The movie is actually not the entire story of the book. The U.S. release was published without the final chapter because Burgess' New York publisher thought it was a kill joy and believed U.S. audiences wouldn't like it. Despite the fact that the directer was English, he decided to write the movie based on the U.S. version, thus leaving out the final chapter." (Movie Mistakes)

6. "The film was rated X on its original release in the United States. Later, Kubrick voluntarily cut 30 seconds from the film for a re-release, which was rated R and released in the US in 1973. It is a common myth that only the R-Rated version (with the 30 seconds taken out or replaced with less graphic content) can be seen nowadays, but the opposite is in fact true: all DVDs present the original X-rated form, and only some of the early 80s VHS editions are in the R-rated form." (AllExperts)

7. "Kubrick left author Anthony Burgess to defend the film from the accusations that it glorified violence. A devoted Christian, Burgess tried numerous times to explain its Christian moral point to outraged Christian groups who felt it was a Satanic influence, and even defend it from accusations by the left-wing media that it supported 'fascist' dogma. He even collected awards for Kubrick. Burgess was deeply hurt and felt Kubrick had used him as a pawn for the film's publicity." (AllExperts)

8. After the film's release, Burgess wrote of Kubrick's versions of Lolita (based on the controversial Nabokov classic) and A Clockwork Orange: "I feared that the cutting to the narrative bone which harmed the filmed Lolita would turn the filmed A Clockwork Orange into a complementary pornograph – the seduction of a minor for the one, for the other brutal mayhem. The writer’s aim in both books had been to put language, not sex or violence, into the foreground; a film, on the other hand, was not made out of words." (from You've Had Your Time, Of Clockwork Apples and Oranges)

9. "Along with Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Straw Dogs (1971), the film is considered a landmark in the relaxation of control on violence in the cinema." (from Revolution in the Head, Wikipedia)

10. When asked why he felt A Clockwork Orange has endured for so long, Malcolm McDowell said, "Because I think the themes are universal and Kubrick was so brilliant that he set it in the future, so it doesn’t really date. And the theme is a universal theme – the freedom of man to choose how he decides to lead his life without government interference. That’s basically the bottom line of what it’s about. That’s still very pertinent, in fact more so today." (Hobo Trashcan)