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The Awakening (1954 film)

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The Awakening
Directed byMichael McCarthy
Screenplay byLawrence B. Marcus
as Larry Marcus
Based onoriginal story
by Nikolai Gogol
Produced byLance Comfort
StarringBuster Keaton
James Hayter
CinematographyKenneth Talbot
Music byBretton Byrd
Release dates
  • 14 July 1954 (1954-07-14) (US)
  • 29 February 1956 (1956-02-29) (UK)
Running time
26 minutes
CountryUK/US
LanguageEnglish

The Awakening is a 1954 short British TV drama film directed by Michal McCarthy and starring Buster Keaton.[1] The screenplay was by Lawrence B. Marcus based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat". It was part of the Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series.

The Man is a first dramatic role of Buster Keaton. Fairbanks says, "It struck me as a beautiful idea as a novel idea as to put him in a straight part, because he was such a beautiful actor and a great talent. It worked out very well; he gave a marvelous performance".[2]

The original plot of Gogol's story is significantly changed. There are allusions to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four dystopia in the film.[3]

Plot summary

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Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "The Awakening". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  2. ^ Dan Lybarger. "A Beautiful Actor: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on Working with Buster Keaton". Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  3. ^ Imogen Sara Smith (September 2008). Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy. Gambit Publishing. ISBN 978-0967591742. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
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