NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
24 Hour Party People
►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1954 | 12 | Blu-ray & DVD (dual format)/ download
►Director Rudolph Cartier
►Cast Peter Cushing, André Morell,
Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasence
BLU-RAY DEBUT Seventy-two years on from its first publication, George Orwell’s dystopia – the work, lest we forget, of a lifelong democratic socialist – has become common currency in the Culture Wars. This long-overdue release reminds us how shocking it was in its day. The Quatermass team of Nigel Kneale and Rudolph Cartier brought Orwell’s enduring concepts – Big Brother, Newspeak, Thoughtcrime, Room 101 – into millions of living rooms on a Sunday evening, and were met with acclaim and revulsion in equal measure.