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1984 (1954) Nineteen Eighty-Four [w/Commentary]

Posted By: MirrorsMaker
Date: 19 Apr 2022 08:08:34
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1984 (1954) Nineteen Eighty-Four [w/Commentary]

1984 (1954)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 113 min | 4,79 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Rudolph Cartier
Writers: George Orwell (novel), Nigel Kneale (adapted as a television play by)
Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Yvonne Mitchell

Winston works in the Records Department for the Ministry of Truth as part of the vast social caste known as the Outer Party. As a government employee, his job is to modify historical news archives for consistency when he discovers undeniable evidence that the party is lying. Along his journey of self-questioning, he falls in love with Julia and that is against the rules…

Exploring the blur between propaganda and truth, the two set off on an irreversible course of discovery all while Big Brother is watching them.

Produced for the BBC in 1954 by Quatermass team Nigel Kneale (writer) and Rudolph Cartier (Producer / Director) as part of its Sunday Night Theatre series. It remains today one of the most controversial broadcasts in television history.

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This production is breathtaking. The BBC did an amazing job of translating Orwell's bleak book onto the screen. It is very dark and the treatment of Smith at the end of the film is not glossed over, this is really daring given the time it was made.

This is a TV movie, the first film based on the novel, 2 years later a US movie version was made which also starred Donald Pleasance but the two films couldn't be more different. Pleasance plays Syme in this one, and does a great job - most memorably describing how beautiful destroying words is. In the 1956 movie he plays Parsons and is less suited to that role, the actor who plays Parsons in this film is Campbell Gray who i know nothing about but he does a fine job playing the role later played by Gregor Fisher of Rab C Nesbitt fame in the 80s version. Cushing plays Winston Smith and gives a typically great performance, physically he is ideal to play Smith and of course he was a fine actor.

This version stays truest to the novel and is actually better than the John Hurt/Richard Burton version from the eighties.

I can't think of one bad thing about this film, apart from the fact you can't buy it anywhere.
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1984 (1954) Nineteen Eighty-Four [w/Commentary]

Audio commentary by television historians Jon Dear, Toby Hadoke and Andy Murray (2022)

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