1984 (1954)
With Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, Donald Pleasence, John Vernon, David Kossoff, Mervyn Johns, Kenneth Griffith
Directed by Michael Anderson
1984 is a 1956 British science fiction film based on the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, depicting a totalitarian future of a dystopian society. The film followed a previous 1953 American Westinghouse Studio One adaptation starring Eddie Albert, and a 1954 BBC-TV made-for-TV adaptation that starred Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence.
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