Stanley Kubrick: 4-film Collection (Stanley Kubrick) (DVD / Box Set)

Collection of four films directed by Stanley Kubrick. In '2001 - A Space Odyssey' 1968, at the dawn of mankind, a tribe of ape-like beings are visited on Earth by a large black monolith. Thousands of years later, in the year 2001, scientist Dr Heywood Floyd William Sylvester discovers a similar black monolith on the moon, which then emits a signal aimed at the planet Jupiter. A year later, astronauts Dr David Bowman Keir Dullea and Dr Frank Poole Gary Lockwood are en route to Jupiter to investigate the signal's destination and purpose. However, their mission comes under threat when their ship's sentient computer, HAL voice of Douglas Rain, seemingly develops a malfunction. 'A Clockwork Orange' 1971 follows sadistic punk Alex Malcolm McDowell as he takes his gang on a rape and murder spree, showing absolutely no mercy to any of his victims. When he is eventually captured, the authorities subject him to a series of experiments designed to rid him of his violent tendencies. In 'The Shining' 1980, seeking solitude in order to write a novel, Jack Torrance Jack Nicholson takes a job as an off-season caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Eager to get started, Jack disregards warnings that the isolation drove a former caretaker mad, and moves into the massive resort with his wife Wendy Shelley Duvall and son Danny Danny Lloyd. But Danny has a supernatural gift which makes him aware of an evil lurking in the hotel, and sure enough, as winter storms cut the hotel off from
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