1984 is a lot of book to pack into a 50-minute drama, but this production does a fine job of it! Unfortunately, the audio is really rough. Luckily, some sections are better than others and, if you are used to listening to vintage radio, you can get through it without being too distracted to enjoy the drama.
Richard Widmark plays Winston. If you've watched any amount of TV or movies from the 60's and 70's you'll recognize his face. My "favorite" Widmark moment is from Kiss of Death, in which he heartlessly ties an old woman to her wheelchair with an electrical cord and shoves her down the steps. Wow! That's dark.
Theatre Guild on the Air (a.k.a.) U.S. Steel Hour #150
1984
26 April 1953
19530426(150)_TGOA_1984.mp3
NBC. Alan Hewitt, George Orwell (author), Kenneth Banghart (narrator), Marian Seldes, Norman Brokenshire (announcer), Richard Widmark (Winston), Robert Readick, Staats Cotsworth, Ronald Long, Florence Robinson, Robert Readick, Lawrence Langner (supervisor), Theresa Helburn (supervisor), Armina Marshall (executive producer), S. Mark Smith (editor), Harold Levey (composer, conductor).
Richard Widmark
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