This British production directed by Michael Anderson is well-cast with Edmund O’Brien as a naive Winston Smith, Michael Redgrave as a quietly deadpan torturer O’Connor (called that because of Edmund O’Brien’s casting), and Donald Pleasence as the oddball Parsons. It covers the basic plot of the book along with effective screens, memory holes, Anti-Sex signs, the Nazi children, the prole washerwoman, room 101, Chestnut Tree café, and Big Brother posters. Given the time this movie was made, it comes off as a basic reasonable facsimile of Orwell’s book and ideas. Above average. Recommended.