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1984 (1956 film)

1984
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMichael Anderson
Screenplay by
Based onNineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
Produced byN. Peter Rathvon
Starring
CinematographyC. M. Pennington-Richards
Edited byBill Lewthwaite
Music byMalcolm Arnold
Production
company
Holiday Film Productions Ltd.
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • 6 March 1956 (1956-03-06) (UK)
  • September 1956 (1956-09) (US)
Running time
90 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
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 followed a previous Westinghouse Studio One adaptation and a BBC-TV made-for-TV adaptation. 1984 was directed by Michael Anderson and starring Edmond O'Brien as protagonist Winston Smith, and featured Donald Pleasence, Jan Sterling, and Michael Redgrave.

  1. ^ "1984". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  2. ^ Porter, Vincent (2000). "The Robert Clark Account: Films released in Britain by Associated British Pictures, British Lion, MGM, and Warner Bros., 1946–1957". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 20 (4): 469–511 [p. 510]. doi:10.1080/713669742. S2CID 161670089.
  3. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (15 June 2017). "The Children of '1984': Dystopia Down the Decades". The New York Times.

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