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1984
Release Date	September, 1956
Genre	SciFi
Director	Michael Anderson
Screenwriter	George Orwell (novel) Ralph Gilbert Bettison William Templeton
Stars	Edmond O'Brien Michael Redgrave Jan Sterling David Kossoff Donald Pleasence Mervyn Johns Carol Wolveridge
Studio	Columbia Pictures

1984 is the 1956 film adaptation of the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The film was previously adapted for television in 1954. Donald Pleasence also appeared in that film. The movie was adapted for the screen in the 1984 film Nineteen Eighty-Four. A fourth adaptation is planned for 2009.

The film sought to capture George Orwell's novel in which a man tries to rebel against a totalitarian future government by falling in love in a world where the emotion has been outlawed. As punishment he is brainwashed and tortured.