1984 - BBC 1954 with Peter Cushing part 15

[deathbyjen1971]

I would like to thank you for posting this video, I had never seen this before nor had I heard of it. I am not often emotionally moved by anything but this movie has made a great impression on me. The hardest thing for me was watching this and realizing this is our reality in todays society. 

[rangeclerk]

Have mentioned this at the beginning of this this showing there is 1986 a book that was written by a writer who was living in the Eastern Europe when Communist Russia was still in control. I purchased the book and read it in the mid 1980s.

[pdw2309]

andre morell was great in this..very good as quatermass also

[LordZontar]

Quite a production for 1954 television. It was striking to see Peter Cushing and Yvonne Mitchell so bedraggled and broken. Mitchell especially succeeds in conveying the empty bitterness that now fills Julia's soul. They both have become old and dead inside —an impression created by their voices as they play out the last scene in the Chestnut Tree. Given the limitations of the production it was a very well-done piece and carried quite well by the actors.

[MoveOverCasanova]

the end is rubbish!

it is not credible. you can torture people, but you cannot break them that intensely for long.

why should they run around like madfolks and don´t bother at all?

the story is good but that ending is just not the way it goes

[XOPAUXO]

@MoveOverCasanova both film versions are wrong, in the book, orwell mentions that julia and possibly winston had a lobotomy in their reeducation process

[sludgefingers]

This last part is brilliantly acted.

[dafmurray]

Thanks so much for posting this. Fantastic adatpion. Great performances. Could you imagine anything this daring being broadcast today! I didn't recognise Andre Morrel who was a fine Quatermass as well.

[juan32913]

They left out the part when Winston gets shot in the back of the head.

[TheJomogogo]

What part was that? Never happened in the book.

[AFrightfulDream]

Here, in the 2nd to last paragraph:

"Winston, sitting in a blissful dream, paid no attention as his glass was filled up. He was not running or cheering any longer. He was back in the Ministry of Love, with everything forgiven, his soul white as snow. He was in the public dock, confessing to everything, implicating anybody. He was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of waliking in hte sunlight, and an armed guard at his back. The longhoped-for bullet was entering his brain."

[TheJomogogo]

Yeah I remember the passage and thought it was what you may have been refering to but it was a dream not something that happened

[AFrightfulDream]

You're quite right, my mistake: "Winston, sitting in a blissful dream," how did I miss it! It does however seem to be about Winston's reconciliation with his coming execution. And it will come as it came to the other broken unpersons who were let loose for a bit before their final erasure. But you're right, in the book it isn't being described as a present act.

[uranrising]

Thank you for the upload. I really never expected to see it.

I', also amazed and thrilled that virtually nobody posting is put off by the relative primitiveness [compared with the high technology we're assailed with these days.]

Another find which makes YouTube amazing.

How I miss plays from the tv.

[yorubablk3]

Julia looks like Hillary Clinton!lol

[pingtran]

Watch Zeitgeist the movie and be free!!!

[whhyyyyyyyyyy]

the actress who plays julia makes the transit between the two versions of her character really well you believe what you see thats what i call acting

[ciocla2]

Great document: thanks a lot. Bellissimo. Ma il nome Dixon è inventato, vero?

[rachel42]

If you say or believe anything outside the norm-you are labelled mentally ill. Big Brother is alive and well today. I will explain what I mean in the future. Let's just say in today's world, if you think outside the box your sanity is questioned.

[weatherboxlisp]

Interesting how Big Brother inverts insanity. insanity as we understand it is when objects with a common meaning are only give entirely subjective meaning, that is insanity, Winston is told he is insane for doing precisely the opposite, for looking at thing objectively, and trying to ascribe empirical 'truth' to the proceedings of life. Sanity becomes insanity, and vice versa. Scary! This book/film is genuinely very scary.

[Nedraed]

Good going, I missed it on BBC 4 several years ago, and was wondering if/when I was going to get to see this!

[kierans1970]

i watched the whole lot of it and enjoyed it. cushing is great and a lot of guest stars including pleasence and old steptoe, thanks for posting.

[053bss]

Deepest thanks for uploading this, Brother.

A story to be treasured forever.

Cheers!

[methenium]

Now they're commenting.

[darkwhitedirewolf]

Then Cushing goes on to play Tarkin in Star Wars...a ruthless dictator, who orders torture and death.

[friggyjiggy]

What I don't get is, what does the lemon tree stand for?

Has anyone found the 1980' version of Brave New World also?? THankss

[weatherboxlisp]

It's a chestnut tree, and the lyrics 'I sold you and you sold me' remind the subjects of their betrayal, the very betrayal that destroyed the steadfast bond of love between them (they cannot respect a love that they have betrayed, for love by nature is beyond betrayal, transcends all other selfish desires - but Big Brother has devised room 101, a means of defeating even love).

[AnthonyJDBurns]

Time to finally express my thanks. :) I was almost resigned to never being able to see this, stumbled upon it purely by accident, and have been glued to YouTube since. I still live in desperate hope for a good offical DVD release (a shame they couldn't have managed one in Nigel Kneale's lifetime), but I'm grateful to know that this is here is the waiting becomes interminable...

[pertuk]

I prefer it to the 80's movie version

[KineticFrenetic]

Big Brother is definitely watching. He's even watching YouTube. Da da daaaaaaa!

Seriously, excellent upload. Fantastic film. Always horrowing to watch Orwellian type films. Presenting future fears that become true as time slowly crawls by.

[henrietta64]

What can I say? Thank you.

[hartnell114]

hi, you can get a copy of the film on dvd on ebay at the main american site, and to think, it was only recorded (and repeted) because the queen said she liked it, many people changed their minds when they heard that the queen liked it, but it was the 50s!

[ReneVAndersen]

Thanks for uploading. I had recently contacted BBC to get a copy of this movie... in vain. And then I find it here ... free of charge...fantastic.

And might I add the performance was stellar...very true to the novel...and remember shot only 6 (or so) years after the book came out.. so quite daring..

[NunWithAnUzi]

i didn't know julia's last name was Dixon.

[kraalomega]

I believe that this was done live. There were two seperate performances and that Cushing prefered the performance that wasn't recorded. But it's still a fantastic performance.

[thregar]

brilliant.. this is an extraordinary realization of the book and in many ways superior to the 1984 John Hurt fim, being a more personal journey for Winston Smith. It doesn't look cheap - the starkness of the production is perfect for the setting of 1984.

[C0NTR4B455]

What you say may be true but it still is a fine TV production. Probably quite unique for its time and stands up pretty well 50 years on. The book is something else altogether. This is but one possible adaptation of it.

[Toemta]

Haveing just finished the book, I find this version to be uncomplete and rather cheaply done. It doens't do the story justice and I feel they missed the point.

[ScarletSherlock]

thank you so, so much.

[AcombDave]

Having watched all the programme can I thank you for uploading that marvellous production of 1984 - shear brilliance and over 50 years after it was made it is a piece of TV history.

Thank you for sharing

[mencken]

Agreed with the escott- this was a treat to us colonists. Thanks, George. Should be required viewing.

[litlnemo]

Wow. Thanks very much; this was excellent.

[shar0285]

Absolutely brilliant! Thanks so much!

[Kumarajiva]

Fantastic. Thank you so much.

[escottish140]

This was BEAUTIFUL! Amazing production! Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this film. I doubt I can find this in a America. So thank you again! (huggles)