The Manchurian Candidate
1962 | Thriller | USA | Directed by John Frankenheimer
Overview
Soldiers captured in Korea come home programmed, and one of them holds a loaded deck of queens. Sinatra fights memory, Lansbury plays the most terrifying mother in politics, and the brainwashing sequence still feels like a fever. Pulled from circulation after the Kennedy assassination and returned a legend. The paranoid political thriller that all others answer to.
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