A Clockwork Orange (novel) Kubrick, starring Malcolm McDowell as Alex. A 1965 film by Andy Warhol entitled "Vinyl" was an adaptation of Burgess's novel. In 1987 Burgess published a stage play titled "A Clockwork Orange: A Play with Music". The play includes songs, written by Burgess, which are inspired by Beethoven and Nadsat slang. In 1988, a German adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange" at the intimate theatre of Bad Godesberg featured a musical score by the German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen which, combined with orchestral clips of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and "other dirty melodies" (so stated by the subtitle), was released on
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