Edmond O'Brien
Winston Smith of the Outer Party
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Box office. £ 80,073 [2] 1984 is a 1956 British black-and-white science fiction film, based on the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, depicting a totalitarian future of a dystopian [3] society. The film was the first feature-length adaptation of the story, and followed a previous Westinghouse Studio One adaptation and a BBC-TV ...
- N. Peter Rathvon
- Malcolm Arnold
- £80,073
1984: Directed by Michael Anderson. With Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff. In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
- (4K)
- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Michael Anderson
- 1956-09
The film opens with the following written prologue: "This is a story of the future. Not the future of space ships and men from other planets, but the immediate future." An offscreen narrator then gives a brief history of how the nuclear wars of 1955 led to the rise of the three great police states that, in 1984, rule the world.
- Michael Anderson, F. Slark
- Edmond O'brien
Jan 14, 2023 · Michael Radford's brilliant film of Orwell's vision does a good job of finding that line between the "future" world of 1984 and the grim postwar world in which Orwell wrote. The movie's 1984 is like a year arrived at through a time warp, an alternative reality that looks constructed out of old radio tubes and smashed office furniture.
- 90 min
- 967
- TechnicalPanda
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