September 23rd.
The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate, based on the 1959 novel by Richard Condon and directed by John Frankenheimer, was released in 1962, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury.
The movie’s title quickly entered the political lexicon, reflecting the fear and frenzy of the McCarthy Era and Cold War preoccupation with Communist subterfuge. As recently as the Obama and Trump administrations, its specter has risen with accusations of foreign influence in presidential elections.
“The Manchurian Candidate feels astonishingly contemporary; its astringent political satire still bites, and its story has uncanny contemporary echoes. The villains plan to exploit a terrorist act, ‘rallying a nation of viewers to hysteria, to sweep us up into the White House with powers that will make martial law seem like anarchy.’” Roger Ebert
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