Fahrenheit 451 ★★★ 1966 Chilling adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel about a totalitarian futuristic society that has banned all reading material and the firemen whose job it is to keep the fires at 451 degrees: the temperature at which paper burns. Werner is Montag, a fireman who begins to question the rightness of his actions when he meets the book-loving teacher Clarisse (Christie)—who also plays the dual role of Werner's TV-absorbed wife, Linda. Truffaut's first color and English-language film. 112m/C VHS, DVD. FR GB Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Alex Scott, Anna Palk, Ann Bell, Mark Lester;
Director:
Francois Truffaut;
Writer:
Francois Truffaut, Helen Scott, Jean-Louis Richard, David Rudkin;
Writer:
Nicolas Roeg;
Cameo:
Bernard Herrmann.
