AFI ‘98: Top 100 Golden Globes ‘63: Support. The biggest question surrounding Paramounts remake of the 1962 classic The Manchurian Candidate - besides 'Why remake a classic' - is whether Meryl Streep is channeling Hillary. Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish, John McGiver, Henry Silva, Khigh (Kaie Deei) Deigh, James Edwards, Doug(las) Henderson, Albert Paulsen, Barry Kelley, Lloyd Corrigan, Whit Bissell, Joe Adams, Madame Spivy, Mimi Dillard, John Lawrence, Tom Lowell D: John Frankenheimer W: John Frankenheimer, George Axelrod C: Lionel Lindon M: David Amram. Featuring a special interview with Sinatra and Frankenheimer in which Sinatra is deified. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is director-producer John Frankenheimers prophetically tragic, chilling, brilliant, blackish (film-noirish) Cold War.

Excellent performances by an all-star cast, with Lansbury and Gregory particularly frightening. Loaded with shocks, conspiracy, inventive visual imagery, and bitter political satire of naivete and machinations of the left and right. Political thriller about an American Korean War vet who suspects that he and his platoon may have been brainwashed during the war, with his highly decorated, heroic friend programmed by commies to be an operational assassin.

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