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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is a Cold War political thriller film adapted from the 1959 thriller novel, by Richard Condon, directed by John Frankenheimer, and features Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, and Janet Leigh. The central...


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The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 film about a Korean War hero who returns to America after having been unwittingly brainwashed to carry out an assassination. Directed by John Frankenheimer . Written by Richard Condon , George Axelrod and John...


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The Stranger
The Manchurian Candidate
07/29/2004: 503 words, approx. 2 pages
When John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate was released in 1962, it trod very fragile political ground. Based on a blatantly anti-McCarthyist novel, and produced just as Hollywood's notorious blacklist was gearing down, the film had to prove its capitalist credentials at the very moment...
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JOHNNY ISELIN; 'The Manchurian Candidate,' 1962
11/05/2006: 307 words, approx. 1 pages
Known for: Demagoguery, venality, stupidity, treason. James Gregory's Johnny Iselin was a truly carbuncular malignancy on the body politic in John Frankenheimer's still-sensational "The Manchurian Candidate." Iselin is a stand-in for Joe McCarthy, but Gregory, a skillful character actor, took it a...
 


 

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