1984 - George Orwell - Original 1956 Black and White film

1984 is a 1956 British black-and-white science fiction film adaptation of the 1949 novel by George Orwell, depicting a totalitarian future of a dystopian society foreshadowing the fallen world we are in now.
This is the first ever film adaptation of the story, directed by Michael Anderson and starring Edmond O'Brien as protagonist Winston Smith, and featuring Donald Pleasence, Jan Sterling, and Michael Redgrave. The character O'Brien, the antagonist, was renamed "O'Connor", due to the shared surname of the actor Edmond O'Brien. Emmanuel Goldstein is changed to "Kalador".
In 1954, Peter Cushing and André Morell starred in a BBC-TV made-for-TV adaptation which was extremely popular with British audiences, leading to the production of the 1956 film version. Donald Pleasence had also appeared in the BBC television version, playing the character of Syme, which for the film was amalgamated with that of Parsons. The script was co-written by William Templeton, who had previously adapted the novel for the US Studio One TV series in 1953.
For the US market, 1984 was distributed in 1956 on a double feature with another British science fiction film, The Gamma People.
Like the earlier film adaption of Animal Farm, 1984 was secretly funded by the Central Intelligence Agency.