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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LEIGH,JANET
EAN: 9780792861584
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Black & White, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792861582
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 3503
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: October 24, 1962
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A Korean war hero is brainwashed and used as a tool in a political assassination plot to be triggered by his domineering mother.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 13-JUL-2004
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video:
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 center 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Manchurian Candidate, a political thriller
The Manchurian Candidate =
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey
The political importance of The Manchurian Candidate, a movie based on the novel written by Richard Condon, is excellent because it teaches us how power corrupts and absolute power has the ability to corrupt people, process and society absolutely. Lina Navarini and I set out to see this version first, followed by the remake by Denzel Washington.
Frank Sinatra plays the role of Bennet Marco, an infantryman ... Read More
Rating: - Even in a Post USSR World the Original Still Resonates
The original Manchurian Candidate remains a gripping, well executed exploration of paranoia and subterfuge, an impressive feat, considering the film is nearing its 50th anniversary.
Those who have seen the remake with Denzel will be familiar with the basic story, but there are enough differences in the plot and plenty of strong performances to make it worth watching this one as well. The original is certainly the stronger of the two versions, with better character development, particularly of the ... Read More
Rating: - The Manchurian Candidate (special edition)
I bought this film because I couldn't find it at Blockbuster. I had rented the new version with Denzel Washington and really didn't feel that it's story was ever fleshed out or fully developed.
Well, after watching the original, the story really jelled and all of the characters were fully developed. And the acting was superb! It has a bit of a feel for the paranoid in all of us who believe the government is up to something -- and not in a good way.
Rating: - Before It's Time
I love this film. Besides great acting, I think the way it was shot is way ahead of its time. The brainwashing sequence is fascinating. Forget the remake and see one of the best films ever!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: - A Great Cold War Thriller
Based on the Richard Condon novel, written by George Axelrod, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring a terrific cast: Frank Sinatra as Maj Marco,tortured by nightmares of an incident he can't remember except as a strange ladies garden party, Lawrence Harvey as a supposed war hero who has been brainwashed to be an assasin when the trigger is used (a little game of solitare) and Angela Lansbury as the most evil mother in the history of movies. One of the first martial arts fights in American cinema takes place ... Read More
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