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The Manchurian Candidate (DVD)

Frank Sinatra (actor), Laurence Harvey (actor) and John Frankenheimer (director)
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Review

Total Film, 01/01/2001, p.108, "...Easily the best and most complex of all Cold War thrillers..."

Chicago Sun-Times, 12/07/2003, p.3, "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE feels astonishingly contemporary; its astringent political satire still bites, and its story has uncanny contemporary echoes."

Rolling Stone, 08/05/2004, p.124, "Frank Sinatra excels as a Korean war vet....And Angela Lansbury is a marvel..."

Film Comment, 11/01/1987, p.60-7, "...It looked good then; it looks even better now....[Sinatra] is extremely moving..."

Los Angeles Times, 01/12/1988, p.C1, "...THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE proves that its fascination is intact..."

Title Note

Theatrical release: October 24, 1962.

Shooting locations: Los Angeles and New York City.

The film was tied up for 25 years in a legal dispute between United Artists and Frank Sinatra, who believed the film's profits were being underreported.

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1994.

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE is number 67 on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.

Frank Sinatra wanted Lucille Ball in the mother role played by Angela Lansbury.

Release Note

This laserdisc-only Deluxe Collector's Edition was digitally remastered and includes the original theatrical trailer. The two-disc set comes in a gatefold jacket.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.75
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Mono - English, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentaries - John Frankenheimer - Director
Interviews - Frank Sinatra - Star; George Axelrod - Screenwriter; John Frankenheimer - Director
Featurettes - 1. "William Friedkin"
2. "Angela Lansbury"
Trailers - Theatrical Trailer
Text/Image Galleries:
Additional Text - Trivia
Behind the Scenes - Production Notes
Stills/Photos

Product Notes

John Frankenheimer's brilliant adaptation of Richard Condon's Cold-War satire, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE is the director's best film, both a coruscating thriller and a razor-sharp satire of political hysteria that captures the turbulent mood of the 1960s. Packed with sly details, such as the liberal senator "bleeding" milk when he's shot, the film demands repeated viewings.

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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5 out of 5 stars See this one for the real deal, February 14, 2008
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This is the original puzzle made in 1962 and pulled from release for many years after JFK was assasinated.

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