1984 Movie Review 1956

Winston Smith and Julia struggle to find happiness through forbidden love in a dystopian totalitarian future ruled by omnipresent dictator Big Brother. Excellently dreary adaptation of the George Orwell novel was made only seven years after the novel's debut, and at the height of the noir age and Cold War, making it that much scarier to contemporary audiences. Seen today, it still captures the dread and paranoia of the novel.

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 90 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sci Fi, Books to Film: George Orwell, Negative Utopia, Brainwashed

Screenplay

William Templeton, Ralph Gilbert Bettinson

Cast

Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave, David Kossoff, Mervyn Johns, Donald Pleasence, Carol Wolveridge, Ernest Clark, Ronan O'Casey, Kenneth Griffith

Cinematography

N. Peter Rathvon

Director

Michael Anderson