803 - The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Random Acts of Cinema

English - October 10, 2023 18:33 - 1 hour - 66.6 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
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Ol Blue Eyes is back! Back from the Korean War and brainwashed by sinister communist agents, that is. Director John Frankenheimer bends minds and our expectations in his stylishly paranoid thriller set in an era of Cold War paranoia, McCarthyism, and presidential assassination.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Teinosuke Kinugasa’s Gate of Hell (1953).