The Awakening (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".

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

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]

Cast

References

  1. Dan Lybarger. "A Beautiful Actor: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on Working with Buster Keaton". Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  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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