| 1984 | |
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| Directed by | Michael Anderson |
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| Based on | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell |
| Produced by | N. Peter Rathvon |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | C. M. Pennington-Richards |
| Edited by | Bill Lewthwaite |
| Music by | Malcolm Arnold |
Production company | Holiday Film Productions Ltd. |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 90 minutes[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| 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.
- ^ "1984". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (15 June 2017). "The Children of '1984': Dystopia Down the Decades". The New York Times.