Release Date: Jul 13, 2004 Region: 1 Runtime: 127 mins Studio: MGM / UA Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC] SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono
Video:
Widescreen 1.75:1 B&W
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French Packaging: Keep Case Rating: PG-13 Features:
Audio Commentary by John Frankenheimer Interview With Frank Sinatra, George Axelrod and John Frankenheimer "A Little Solitaire" Featurette With William Friedkin "Queen of Diamonds" Featurette With Angela Lansbury Photo Gallery Original Theatrical Trailer
You will never find a more chillingly suspenseful, perversely funny, or viciously satirical political thriller than The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon (author of Winter Kills). The film, withheld from distribution by star Frank Sinatra for almost a quarter-century after President Kennedy's assassination, has lost none of its potency over time. Former infantryman Bennet Marco (Sinatra) is haunted by nightmares about his platoon having been captured and brainwashed in Korea. The indecipherable dreams seem to centre on Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), a decorated war hero but a cold fish of a man whose own mother (Angela Lansbury, in one of the all-time great dragon-lady roles) describes him as looking like his head is "always about to come to a point". Mrs Bates has nothing on Lansbury's character, the manipulative queen behind her second husband, Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), a notoriously McCarthyesque demagogue. --Jim Emerson
Interview With Frank Sinatra George Axelrod And John Frankenheimer Trivia And Production Notes Original Theatrical Trailer Feature Length Audio Commentary Interactive Menu Screens And Chapter Selection
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