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Fahrenheit 451
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Director:
Writers:
Ray Bradbury (novel)
François Truffaut (screenplay) ...
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14 November 1966 (USA) more
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In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 nominations more
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Engrossing, underrated sci-fi more (124 total)

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Oskar Werner ... Guy Montag

Julie Christie ... Clarisse / Linda Montag
Cyril Cusack ... The Captain
Anton Diffring ... Fabian / Headmistress
Jeremy Spenser ... Man with the Apple
Bee Duffell ... Book Woman
Alex Scott ... Book Person: 'The Life of Henry Brulard'
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112 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)

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Producer Lewis M. Allen said the studio's legal department requested that only books in the public domain be shown burning for fear of being sued by offended authors. Director François Truffaut and Allen ignored the request, believing that anyone would be flattered to have their book included. more
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Revealing mistakes: Montag's hair in the final scene is different than it is in the rest of the film. This is because Oskar Werner, to show his dislike of director François Truffaut, purposely did this to create a continuity error. more
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The Captain: Listen to me, Montag. Once to each fireman, at least once in his career, he just itches to know what these books are all about. He just aches to know. Isn't that so? more
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Engrossing, underrated sci-fi, 9 April 2005
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Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

From Ray Bradbury's novel about totalitarian society that has banned books and printed words in order to eliminate independent thought; Oskar Werner plays professional book-burner who becomes enraptured with stories. Possibly a bit too thin at this length, but a fascinating peek at a cold future (which the times have just about caught up to). Didn't get a warm reception from critics in its day, yet the performances by Werner and Julie Christie (in a dual role as both Werner's wife and his rebel girlfriend) are top notch. I was never a fan of director Francois Truffaut's too-precious stories of childhood, but this film, curiously his only English-language picture, is extremely well-directed; the sequence with the woman and her books afire is one amazing set-piece, with tight editing, incredible and precise art direction, and the camera in all the right places. Truffaut lets you feel the agony of book paper curling up black in a mass of orange flames, and the proud defiance of the woman as she herself strikes the match. Unforgettable. ***1/2 from ****

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