The_Awakening_(1954_film)

<i>The Awakening</i> (1954 film)

The Awakening (1954 film)

1954 film

The Awakening is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".

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The Man is a first dramatic role of Buster Keaton. Fairbanks says, "It struck me as a beautiful idea — a novel idea — 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".[1]

The original plot of Gogol's story is significantly changed. There are allusions to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four dystopia in the film.[2]

Plot summary

Cast

References

  1. [1]
    Dan Lybarger. "A Beautiful Actor: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on Working with Buster Keaton". Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  2. [2]
    Imogen Sara Smith (September 2008). Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy. Gambit Publishing. ISBN 978-0967591742. Retrieved October 12, 2017.


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