| A Clock Work Blue | |
| Director: | Eric Jeffrey Haims |
| Producer: | Eric Jeffrey Haims Shelley Haims |
| Starring: | Joe E. Tata |
| Studio: | Xerxes Productions Ltd. |
| Runtime: | 86 minutes[1] |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
A Clock Work Blue is a 1972 American sexploitation comedy film directed by Eric Jeffrey Haims. It stars Joe E. Tata as Homer, a clumsy researcher who acquires a watch that allows him to travel through time.
A Clock Work Blue opened in 1972 at the Cinestage Theatre on Dearborn Street in Chicago, Illinois, six days after the film A Clockwork Orange had completed an 18-week run at the nearby Michael Todd Theatre. This, combined with A Clock Work Blues title and the fact that some of its advertising had made references to A Clockwork Orange (such as that the former film "makes Orange blush") resulted in legal action from Warner Bros., the distributor of A Clockwork Orange. The case resulted in Warner Bros. winning a consent order which declared that A Clock Work Blue was not to be screened under that title in any other theater in Cook County, Illinois.[2]
Brian Orndorf of Blu-ray.com called the film "bizarre and relentless with its mediocrity", as well as "screamingly racist".[3]
In April 2014, A Clock Work Blue was restored in 4K and released on DVD and Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome as a double feature with the 1971 film The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio, also directed by Haims.[4]
"In the consent order which Warners won, the defendants were directed to stop screening the film and not to show it under that title in any other theater in Cook County, and not to exhibit or distribute any other film using the title 'A Clockwork Blue."