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The Manchurian Candidate
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DVD Details
- Interview with Frank Sinatra, George Axelrod and John Frankenheimer
- Audio Commentary by John Frankenheimer
- "Queen of Diamonds" Featurette with Angela Lansbury
- "A Little Solitaire" Featurette with William Friedkin
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 13, 2004
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury & Janet Leigh | |
Performer: | James Gregory, John McGiver, Leslie Parrish, James Edwards & Henry Silva | |
Directed by | John Frankenheimer | |
Edited by | Ferris Webster | |
Screenwriting by | George Axelrod | |
Composition by | David Amram | |
Produced by | George Axelrod & John Frankenheimer | |
Director of Photography: | Lionel Lindon | |
Executive Production by | Howard W. Koch |
Entertainment Reviews:
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE feels astonishingly contemporary; its astringent political satire still bites, and its story has uncanny contemporary echoes.
Chicago Sun-Times
Wildly implausible though some of its razzle-dazzle incidents may seem in retrospect, this Hollywood mystery melodrama is almost continuously exciting or amusing or both.
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Maclean's Magazine
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
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
powerful experience, alternately corrosive with dark parodic humor, suspenseful, moving, and terrifying.
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Chicago Reader
A masterpiece.
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Time Out
Rating: A --
[VIDEO ESSAY] John Frankenheimer directs with a distinctive complexity of visual depth and a surreal tone of lurking menace.
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ColeSmithey.com
Description by OLDIES.com:
Eerie, shocking, daring, thrilling and mesmerizing, The Manchurian Candidate "will leave you breathless" (People)! Featuring an all-star cast, including Angela Lansbury in an Oscar-nominated performance, this "chilling and controversial" (Leonard Maltin) film "may be the most sophisticated political satire ever made" (Pauline Kael).
When a platoon of Korean War G.I.s is captured, they somehow end up at a ladies' garden club party. Or do they? Major Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) can't remember. As he searches for the answer, he discovers threads of a diabolical plot orchestrated by the utterly ruthless Mrs. Iselin (Lansbury) and involving her war hero son (Laurence Harvey), her senator husband (James Gregory) and a secret cabal of enemy leaders.
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
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 121,508
- UPC: 027616911131
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