With Criterion bringing the latter to Blu-ray this month, it’s time to take a look at the classic novel’s first big-budget adaptation. Despite the inherent issues in bringing the book to the screen, this hasn’t stopped filmmakers from attempting it, including the outstanding 1954 live BBC version with Peter Cushing, and another made 30 years later by director/screenwriter Michael Radford. It’s a novel about a time and place, about society, and the way the government could potentially establish an overreaching grip on everyone and everything. In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love. Michael Radford's adaption of George Orwell's foreboding literary premonition casts John Hurt and Suzanna Hamilton as lovers who must keep their courtship secret.
As far as adapting the novel for the screen, it seemed like a most difficult prospect, mainly because Orwell’s novel is one of ideas, more so than one with a substantial plotline. With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack. 1984 Jan Sterling 353 DVD 7 offers from 3.99 Logan's Run (DVD) Michael York 4,112 DVD 48 offers from 3.11 Product Description NTSC/Region 0. At one point or another, it seems that everyone ends up reading George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel “1984.” Whether it’s because of it still being a staple of literature in schools, or whether one is simply curious because of its immense reputation, it’s a novel that continues to draw attention and admiration.
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