Culture of Manchester an early author of police procedural novels. Procter's "Hell is a City" (1954) is set in a fictionalised Manchester, later filmed in the city with lead roles for Donald Pleasence and Stanley Baker. Anthony Burgess (born 1917), author of "A Clockwork Orange", was born and educated in Manchester. "Little Wilson and Big God", the first volume of his autobiography, includes a detailed account of his early life in the city between 1917 and 1940. Howard Jacobson, born in Prestwich in 1942, an area with a strong Jewish community, has written about post-war Manchester in "The Mighty Walzer" (1999) and "Kalooki
A Clockwork Orange (film) Fresh" rating among critics on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 55 reviews with an average rating of 8.4/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Disturbing and thought-provoking, "A Clockwork Orange" is a cold, dystopian nightmare with a very dark sense of humor". The movie was the most popular film of 1972 in France with 7,611,745 admissions. Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" praised the film saying: The following year, after the film won the New York Film Critics Award, he called it "a brilliant and dangerous work, but it is dangerous in a way that brilliant things sometimes are". Despite praise