The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

Eerie, shocking, daring, thrilling and mesmerizing, "The Manchurian Candidate" is "A masterpiece. One of the best and brightest of modern American films" (Roger Ebert). Featuring an all-star cast, including Angela Lansbury ("The Greatest Story Ever Told") 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 GIs is captured, they somehow end up at a ladies' garden club party. Or do they? Frank Sinatra ("Guys and Dolls") who portrays Major Bennett Marco, 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, "The Alamo"), her senator husband (James Gregory, "Clambake") and a secret cabal of enemy leaders.


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Mind Control & The Manchurian Candidate

The Cinema Forum
 Dec 7, 2023  #mindcontrol #manchuriancandidate
Delving into the 1962 political thriller “The Manchurian Candidate” and its connection to the real life mind control program run in the 1950s and 60s.