Passed by the British Board of Film Censors with an "X" certificate on November 10, 1955 and then premiered at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, on March 1, 1956 running disappointingly for only two weeks. Interestingly, this was the first of two versions that Director Michael Anderson shot, each with an entirely different ending. The Monthly Film Bulletin reviewed the London premiere and noted that the "changed ending" shows Winston Smith shouting "Down with Big Brother", whereupon he is promptly shot by the police. Julia is shot down as she approaches his dead body. In the American version (released on DVD by Orbit Media and taken from a television print from Screen Gems), Smith does exactly the opposite and ends up shouting "Long Live Big Brother," but Julia is nowhere to be seen. Comparing the two versions, the latter was closer to Orwell's original, while the original British ending was damned by The Times as an "unforgivable mistake".

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