THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (J. FRANKENHEIMER)
After being suppressed for 25 years after its first run, John Frankenheimers 1962 masterpiece re-emerges as one of the best and brightest of modern American films. In a riveting opening sequence, a group of American combat infantrymen are shown being brainwashed by a confident Chinese Communist hypnotist, who has them so surely under his control that one man is ordered to strangle his buddy and cheerfully complies. The Manchurian Candidate was shelved in a dispute between United Artists and Sinatra, who held a controlling interest in the film. For more than 25 years, memories of The Manchurian Candidate have tantalized those who saw it at the time.
- Frank Sinatra - Major Bennett Marco
- Laurence Harvey - Raymond Shaw
- Janet Leigh - Eugenie Rose Chaney
- Angela Lansbury - Raymonds Mutter
- Henry Silva - Chunjin
- James Gregory - Senator James Iselin
- George Axelrod nach einer Vorlage von Richard Condon
- Lionel Lindon
- Richard Carruth
- Ferris Webster
- David Amram
- Richard Sylbert
- Moss Mabry
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