The Awakening | |
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Directed by | Michael McCarthy |
Screenplay by | Lawrence B. Marcus as Larry Marcus |
Based on | original story by Nikolai Gogol |
Produced by | Lance Comfort |
Starring |
Buster Keaton James Hayter |
Cinematography | Kenneth Talbot |
Music by | Bretton Byrd |
Release dates |
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Running time | 26 minutes |
Country | UK/US |
Language | English |
The Awakening is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story " The Overcoat".
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]
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