Alex (A Clockwork Orange) Alex (A Clockwork Orange) Alex is a fictional character in Anthony Burgess' novel "A Clockwork Orange" and Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the same name, in which he is played by Malcolm McDowell. In the film, his surname is DeLarge, a reference to Alex calling himself The Large in the novel. In the film, however, two newspaper articles print his name as "Alex Burgess". In addition to the book and film, Alex was portrayed by Vanessa Claire Smith in the ARK Theatre Company's multi-media adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange", directed by Brad Mays. Alex is the narrator, protagonist and antihero
Murder in a Blue World bal du vaudou" and in the United States as "To Love, Perhaps to Die", with the latter title a closer translation of the Spanish. In the 1980s, Empire Video released the film on British VHS as "Clockwork Terror" in an attempt to sell it almost as a sequel to "A Clockwork Orange" and subsequent UK video and DVD releases were titled "Murder in a Blue World" in reference to the fictional Blue Drink featured in the film. In 1986, the film was released on British VHS by Empire Video as "Clockwork Terror" and again in 2001 by Pagan Films as