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The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

Paperback

Series: BFI Film Classics

Film Studies

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ISBN10: 1838719644
ISBN13: 9781838719647
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: May 28 2020
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.50
Language: English

It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood, film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman brainwashed in Korea and made into an assassin. Sophisticated to be sure, it's also a headlong fall through the looking-glass of American politics and the most deeply prophetic film of the second half of the American century. As Greil Marcus reconstructs the drama, The Manchurian Candidate is a movie in which the director and actors, including Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury in an Academy Award-nominated performance, were suddenly capable of anything, beyond any expectations.

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