The Manchurian Candidate (Blu-ray) PG-13
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Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 10, 2011
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
- Note: Exclusive interview with Frank Sinatra, George Axelrod and John Frankenheimer
- Audio commentary by director John Frankenheimer
- Queen of Diamonds featurette
- A Little Solitaire featurette
- How to Get Shot
- Original theatrical trailer
- Dual Layer
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.75
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- DTS HD Master Audio - English, French
- Subtitles - French, Spanish
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh & Henry Silva | |
Performer: | James Edwards, James Gregory, John McGiver & Leslie Parrish | |
Directed by | John Frankenheimer | |
Edited by | Ferris Webster | |
Screenwriting by | George Axelrod | |
Composition by | David Amram | |
Produced by | John Frankenheimer & George Axelrod | |
Director of Photography: | Lionel Lindon | |
Executive Production by | Howard W. Koch |
Entertainment Reviews:
John Frankenheimer’s 1962 film is a masterpiece of Cold War paranoia, where the square-jawed military hero Raymond Shaw is brainwashed to become a Soviet sleeper agent.
The Atlantic
An unstable compound of science fiction, political satire and murder which fails to explode.
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Esquire Magazine
powerful experience, alternately corrosive with dark parodic humor, suspenseful, moving, and terrifying.
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Chicago Reader
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE feels astonishingly contemporary; its astringent political satire still bites, and its story has uncanny contemporary echoes.
Chicago Sun-Times
A masterpiece.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/4 --
... what strikes me is the savvy and modern craft of its filmmaking.
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Scene-Stealers.com
The 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.
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Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
John Frankenheimer's brilliant adaptation of Richard Condon's Cold-War satire, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE is the director's best film, both a coruscating thriller and a razor-sharp satire of political hysteria that captures the turbulent mood of the 1960s. Packed with sly details, such as the liberal senator "bleeding" milk when he's shot, the film demands repeated viewings.
Laurence Harvey stars as Sergeant Raymond Shaw, whose U.S. army unit is captured while fighting in Korea, taken to Manchuria, and brainwashed by Chinese communists. The men return to the U.S. with no conscious memory of their experience, and Shaw is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery. But when Captain Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) starts having nightmares, he begins an authorized investigation into what happened in Manchuria and eventually reveals that the sergeant's brainwashing has transformed him into an unconscious assassin who can be triggered by his communist controllers at will. Although Sinatra is slightly miscast as a tortured intellectual, Harvey and the remaining cast are excellent, as is Richard Sylbert's inventively designed "brainwashing" sequence, Lionel Lindon's extraordinary depth-of-field camerawork, and David Amram's witty, neoclassical score.
Laurence Harvey stars as Sergeant Raymond Shaw, whose U.S. army unit is captured while fighting in Korea, taken to Manchuria, and brainwashed by Chinese communists. The men return to the U.S. with no conscious memory of their experience, and Shaw is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery. But when Captain Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) starts having nightmares, he begins an authorized investigation into what happened in Manchuria and eventually reveals that the sergeant's brainwashing has transformed him into an unconscious assassin who can be triggered by his communist controllers at will. Although Sinatra is slightly miscast as a tortured intellectual, Harvey and the remaining cast are excellent, as is Richard Sylbert's inventively designed "brainwashing" sequence, Lionel Lindon's extraordinary depth-of-field camerawork, and David Amram's witty, neoclassical score.
Keywords:
Classic
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Politics
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Psychodrama
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Suspense
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Thriller
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War
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Murder
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Deception
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Recommended
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Disturbing
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
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Based On A Novel
Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: October 24, 1962.
- Shooting locations: Los Angeles and New York City.
- The film was tied up for 25 years in a legal dispute between United Artists and Frank Sinatra, who believed the film's profits were being underreported.
- THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1994.
- THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE is number 67 on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.
- Frank Sinatra wanted Lucille Ball in the mother role played by Angela Lansbury.
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