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NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

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1954 | 12 | Blu-ray & DVD (dual format)/download

Director Rudolph Cartier

Cast Peter Cushing, André Morell, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasence

on from its first publication, George Orwell’s dystopia – the work, lest we forget, of a lifelong democratic socialist – has team of Nigel Kneale and Rudolph Cartier brought Orwell’s enduring concepts – Big Brother, Newspeak, Thoughtcrime, Room 101 – into millions of living rooms on a Sunday evening, and were met with acclaim and revulsion in equal measure.

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