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) of the Ludovico technique scene, McDowell scratched a cornea, and was temporarily blinded. The doctor standing next to him in the scene, dropping saline solution into Alex's forced-open eyes, was a real physician present to prevent the actor's eyes from drying. McDowell also cracked some ribs filming the humiliation stage show. A unique special effect technique was used when Alex jumps out of the window in an attempt to commit suicide and the viewer sees the ground approaching the camera until collision, i.e., as if from Alex's point of view. This effect was achieved by dropping a Newman Sinclair clockwork