Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four was an American television adaptation of the novel of the same name by George Orwell, broadcast on CBS in the fall of 1953. Eddie Albert played Winston Smith, Norma Crane was Julia, and Lorne Greene appeared as O'Brien. It was the first television version of the novel, and was broadcast in the Studio One series on September 21, 1953.

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  • 1953
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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also 1984), by George Orwell, published in 1949, is a dystopian novel about the totalitarian regime of the Party, an oligarchical collectivist society where life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, public...
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