The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Laurence Harvey stars as Sergeant Raymond Shaw, whose U.S. army unit is captured while fighting in Korea, taken to Manchuria, and brainwashed by Chinese communists. The men return to the U.S. with no conscious memory of their experience, and Shaw is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery. But when Captain Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) starts having nightmares, he begins an authorized investigation into what happened in Manchuria and eventually reveals that the sergeant's brainwashing has transformed him into an unconscious assassin who can be triggered by his communist controllers at will. Although Sinatra is slightly miscast as a tortured intellectual, Harvey and the remaining cast are excellent, as is Richard Sylbert's inventively designed "brainwashing" sequence, Lionel Lindon's extraordinary depth-of-field camerawork, and David Amram's witty, neoclassical score.

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John Frankenheimer Ronin, Reindeer Games, The Island of Dr. Moreau

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Frank Sinatra From Here to Eternity, Ocean's Eleven, Guys and Dolls Janet Leigh Psycho, Touch of Evil, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Angela Lansbury Beauty and the Beast, Fantasia/2000, Anastasia Laurence Harvey The Alamo, Vérités et mensonges, BUtterfield 8 Henry Silva Ocean's Eleven, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Above the Law James Gregory Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Flight of Dragons Leslie Parrish The Giant Spider Invasion, Sex and the Single Girl, The Virgin Queen [more]

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