The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate

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Major Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. He served valiantly as a Captain in the Korean war and his Sergeant, Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), even received the Medal of Honor. Marco has a major problem however: he has a recurring nightmare, one where two members of his squad were killed by Shaw. He's put on indefinite sick leave and visits Shaw in New York City. Shaw, for his part. has established himself well, despite the misgivings of... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Manchurian Candidate:

Frank Sinatra
Laurence Harvey
Angela Lansbury
Janet Leigh
James Gregory
Henry Silva

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Major Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. He served valiantly as a Captain in the Korean war and his Sergeant, Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), even received the Medal of Honor. Marco has a major problem however: he has a recurring nightmare, one where two members of his squad were killed by Shaw. He's put on indefinite sick leave and visits Shaw in New York City. Shaw, for his part. has established himself well, despite the misgivings of his domineering mother, Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin (Dame Angela Lansbury). She is a red-baiter, accusing anyone who disagrees with her right-wing reactionary views of being a Communist. Raymond hates her, not only for how she's treated him, but equally because of his stepfather, the ineffectual U.S. Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), who is intent on seeking higher office. When Marco learns that others in his Korean War unit have had nightmares similar to his own, he realizes that something happened to all of them in Korea, and that Raymond Shaw is the focal point.

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Common Sense Media - 10/10 by Brian CostelloClassic Cold War satirical thriller stands test of time.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - 10/10 by Jay ScottFrankenheimer guides all of it with the loopy logic of one of Marco’s nightmares – you’ll certainly never look at ladies’ gardening clubs the same.
Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films - 10/10 by Tim DirksThe Manchurian Candidate (1962) is director John Frankenheimer's prophetically tragic, chilling, brilliant, blackish (film-noirish) Cold War thriller about brain-washing,
Cinema em Cena - 10/10 by Pablo VillaçaUm filme tenso e inteligente que traz Frank Sinatra em grande atuação.
Hollywood Reporter - 10/10 by James PowersThe direction and acting are good, so interest is maintained. Frankeheimer's handling of the early sequences, in which he attempts and succeeds in creating on film the corruption of the mind, is imaginative filmmaking.
The New Yorker - 10/10 by Pauline KaelOne of the wildest fabrications any author has ever tried to palm off on a gullible public. But the fascinating thing is that, from uncertain premise to shattering conclusion, one does not question plausibility of the events being rooted in their own cinematic reality.
Groucho Reviews - 10/10 by Peter CanaveseSet the standard for cinematic paranoid thrillers and stands as the quintessential John Frankenheimer film. [Blu-ray]
Cinema Writer - 10/10 by Jay AntaniWith spry editing and camerawork, [Frankenheimer] fuses together a documentary-like realism and more expressive stylizations to create a hybrid thriller-satire
Film Freak Central - 10/10 by Walter Chawa benchmark of the United States' coming of age in the 1960s
eFilmCritic.com - 10/10 by David CorneliusPeople have called The Machurian Candidate the greatest political thriller ever made. People would be right.

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