10 Shocking Movie Moments That Made People Leave The Cinema
5. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
While Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange may be regarded as a classic these days, one which you might even be able to watch in film classes and alongside your cinephile parents (if there is such a beast), in 1971 it was racy stuff.
Too racy, in fact, for many cinemagoers, who baulked at the prospect of watching ultraviolence and sexual assault projected in 40-foot technicolour.
Anti-hero Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) goes on a milk-fuelled rampage around a future, dystopian London that looks uncannily like the early 1970s.
Amongst this, it is the infamous Singin' In The Rain scene that proved the last (and somewhat first) straw, where Alex and his droogs invade the home of an elderly writer, beat him and rape his wife, whilst singing and dancing to the Gene Kelly number, Singin' In The Rain.
In fact, so shocking to the sensibilities was Kubrick's treatment of the source material, the novel's author, Anthony Burgess, and his wife, walked out of a preview screening themselves.