1984
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Critics Sentiment
Winston and Julia meet in meadow outside London and make love
O'Connor confines Winston in room filled with rats
The film crashes from the peak of Winston and Julia's forbidden love in the meadow (7.8) to the widely criticized and ineffective Room 101 sequence (4.1), a drop of 3.7 points that represents the adaptation's biggest failure.
This 1956 adaptation of Orwell's dystopian masterpiece received mixed reviews, with critics praising the atmospheric black and white photography and Edmund O'Brien's committed performance while consistently criticizing the weak Room 101 sequence. The film succeeds best in its middle section depicting the forbidden romance between Winston and Julia, but falters in delivering the novel's most crucial psychological horror moments.
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Edmond O'Brien
Winston Smith of the Outer Party
Jan Sterling
Julia of the Outer Party
Michael Redgrave
O'Connor of the Inner Party
David Kossoff
Charrington the Junk Shop Owner
Mervyn Johns
Jones
Donald Pleasence
R. Parsons
Carol Wolveridge
Selina Parsons
Ernest Clark
Outer Party Announcer
Patrick Allen
Inner Party Official
Ronan O'Casey
Rutherford
Bartlett Mullins
Syme
Michael Ripper
Outer Party Orator
Ewen Solon
Outer Party Orator
Kenneth Griffith
Prisoner
Walter Gotell
Guard (uncredited)
Patrick Troughton
Man on Telescreen (uncredited)
John Vernon
Big Brother (uncredited)
Barbara Keogh
Special Woman (uncredited)
Barbara Cavan
Woman (voice) (uncredited)
Anthony Jacobs
Telescreen (voice) (uncredited)
Crew
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