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:... a tall, bald Communist Chinese/Korean doctor-spylord Yen Lo ... introduces the captured, passive and impotent men, all drugged and hypnotized [for] a public demonstration of the powers of hypnotism <ref name="filmsite"/>
 
:... a tall, bald Communist Chinese/Korean doctor-spylord Yen Lo ... introduces the captured, passive and impotent men, all drugged and hypnotized [for] a public demonstration of the powers of hypnotism <ref name="filmsite"/>
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The movie featured a riveting performance by Angela Lansbury<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001450/</ref> as the brilliant, controlling mother who manipulated both her husband and her son to realize her dream of a communist takeover of the [[United States]].
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The movie featured a riveting performance by Angela Lansbury<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001450/</ref> as the brilliant, controlling mother who manipulated both her husband and her son to realize her dream of a communist takeover of the [[United States]].  Her husband was a parody of Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]], who brandishes a list of 57 card carrying communists.  He got the 57 off a bottle of ketchup.
    
The movie was remade with [[Denzel Washington]] in the Sinatra role and [[Liev Schreiber]] as a the assassin controlled by a microchip brain implant. [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/manchurian_candidate/about.php]
 
The movie was remade with [[Denzel Washington]] in the Sinatra role and [[Liev Schreiber]] as a the assassin controlled by a microchip brain implant. [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/manchurian_candidate/about.php]
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