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John Hurt
Winston Smith
Richard Burton
O'Brien
Suzanna Hamilton
Julia
Cyril Cusack
Charrington
Gregor Fisher
Parsons
James Walker
Syme
Andrew Wilde
Tillotson
David Cann
Martin
Peter Frye
Rutherford
Roger Lloyd Pack
Waiter
David Trevena
Tillotson's Friend
Anthony Benson
Jones
Phyllis Logan
The Telescreen Anouncer (voice)
Garry Cooper
Guard
Rupert Baderman
Winston Smith as a Boy
Corinna Seddon
Winston's Mother
Martha Parsey
Winston's Sister
Merelina Kendall
Mrs. Parsons
P.J. Nicholas
William Parsons
Lynne Radford
Susan Parsons
Pip Donaghy
Inner Party Speaker
Shirley Stelfox
The Whore
Janet Key
The Instructress
Hugh Walters
Artsem Lecturer
John Hughes
Man in White Coat
Robert Putt
Shouting Prole
Christine Hargreaves
Soup Lady
Matthew Scurfield
Guard
John Golightly
Patrolman
Rolf Saxon
Patrolman
Ole Oldendorp
Eurasian Soldier
Eddie Stacey
Executioner
Norman Bacon
Man on Station Platform
John Foss
Youth Leader
Carey Wilson
Party Member
Mitzi McKenzie
Party Member
Pam Gems
The Washerwoman
Joscik Barbarossa
Aaronson
John Boswall
Goldstein
Bob Flag
Big Brother
Keith Gale
Prole (uncredited)
Annie Lennox
Woman at rally (uncredited)
Lucien Morgan
Ministery Worker (uncredited)
Michael Munn
Interrogation Room Soldier (uncredited)
Jason Savage
Child at Rally (uncredited)
Fred Wood
Prol (uncredited)

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A review by CharlesTheBold

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Written by CharlesTheBold on Wed Feb 22 2017

Based on George Orwell's dystopian novel from the 1940s, the movie was produced in the very year that Orwell had set it, 1984. Horrified by the recent atrocities by the Germans and Russians, and fearing that England and America might take a similar turn, Orwell had painted a frightening portrait of the ultimate dictatorship, and the movie faithfully followed him. Some of the details were: (1) Continual surveillance, in this case carried out by cameras hidden inside television sets. (2) Decaying infrastructure and shoddy merchandise produced by the Party's monopoly of the economy. ...