1984 (1956 film)
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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 |
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| Cinematography | C. M. Pennington-Richards |
| Edited by | Bill Lewthwaite |
| Music by | Malcolm Arnold |
Production company | Holiday Film Productions Ltd. |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £80,073 |
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 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.
1984 (the movie) was directed by Michael Anderson and starring Edmond O'Brien as protagonist Winston Smith, and featured Donald Pleasence, Jan Sterling, Michael Ripper and Michael Redgrave. It was released in the UK on March 6, 1956, and in the US in September 1956. It played in the US on a double feature with The Gamma People (1956).