The book police fall in love with what they're burning. Oops!
A young security police officer in a future totalitarian state is assigned to suppress illegal intellectual activity, including executing book readers. He catches a librarian hiding a banned book and joins her in reading books.
Direction
Frankenheimer's live TV roots create suffocating claustrophobia
Acting
Sterling Hayden's physicality as conflicted enforcer
Director
John Frankenheimer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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