The Manchurian Candidate

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The Manchurian Candidate
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  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 24, 1998
  • Originally Released: 1962
  • Label: MGM (Video & DVD)

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User Ratings: 31,307
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. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Oct 11, 2019
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. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
Mar 1, 2018
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE feels astonishingly contemporary; its astringent political satire still bites, and its story has uncanny contemporary echoes.
Chicago Sun-Times
Dec 7, 2003
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
Jun 5, 2020
...THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE proves that its fascination is intact...
Los Angeles Times
Jan 12, 1988
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE tweaks our collective fear that the enemy looks exactly like us in much the same way that the original INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS does, but with a political doomsday scenario foregrounded rather than merely implied. -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club
Mar 12, 2016
...It looked good then; it looks even better now....[Sinatra] is extremely moving...
Film Comment
Nov 1, 1987

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.

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