TY - BOOK AU - François Truffaut AU - François Truffaut AU - Jean-Louis Richard AU - Ray Bradbury AU - Julie Christie AU - Oskar Werner AU - Cyril Cusack TI - Fahrenheit 451 AV - PN1997 .F347 1966 .F347 1966 PY - 1966/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Vineyard Films, Ltd. N1 - Based on the novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury N2 - From case cover: Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important screen innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Julie Christie stars in the challenging dual role of Oskar Werner's pleasure-seeking conformist wife, Linda, and his rebellious, book-collecting mistress, Clarisse. Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freeom. Truffaut's first English language production is an eerie fable where mankind becomes the ultimate evil ER -