{"id":42493,"date":"2026-08-29T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42493"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:41:34","slug":"the-manchurian-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42493","title":{"rendered":"“The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh & Angela Lansbury \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Manchurian Candidate <\/i>(1962)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director: John Frankenheimer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screenplay: \u00a0George Axelrod; <\/strong>based on THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE<\/a> by Richard Condon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Stars:\u00a0 Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, Leslie Parrish, John McGiver, Khigh Dhiegh, James Edwards, Barry Kelley, Lloyd Corrigan\u00a0 <\/strong>and James Gregory<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tagline: If you come in five minutes after this picture begins, you won’t know what it’s all about! When you’ve seen it all, you’ll swear there’s never been anything like it!<\/em><\/p>\n

The Plot…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Captain Ben Marco and Sergeant Raymond Shaw are returned to the US, along with other surviving members of their platoon.\u00a0 The soldiers had been captured by Soviet and Chinese forces during the Korean War.<\/p>\n

Once home Marco repeatedly has nightmares where he and fellow US soldiers are on a stage.\u00a0 They sit calmly as enemy soldiers see a presentation about new mind control techniques.\u00a0 In the dream\u00a0 Sergeant Shaw is ordered to kill one of the US soldiers on stage.\u00a0 Shaw takes the weapon walks over to the identified soldier who calmly sits as Shaw blows his brains out.<\/p>\n

Since their arrival back to the States, Shaw has been awarded the Medal of Honor for saving fellow soldiers in Korean Combat.\u00a0 Shaw’s father is a US Senator, his mother guides his father’s career.\u00a0 A Presidential run is in his father’s future.\u00a0 The family is through and through “red, white and blue”.\u00a0 Yet, Marco can’t shake the feeling something is not right with Raymond Shaw.<\/p>\n

And he’s right…<\/p>\n

Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Manchurian Candidate<\/em> was nominated for two Academy Awards<\/em>…<\/p>\n