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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]]. One reviewer called this premise "far-fetched".<ref name="filmsite"> "Although the film initially failed at the box-office and its plot was considered far-fetched, it anticipated the American obsession with conspiracy theories in the early to mid-60s." [http://www.filmsite.org/manc.html] </ref>

:... 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]]. One reviewer called this premise "far-fetched".<ref name="filmsite"> "Although the film initially failed at the box-office and its plot was considered far-fetched, it anticipated the American obsession with conspiracy theories in the early to mid-60s." [http://www.filmsite.org/manc.html] </ref>

(The notion that ''The Manchurian Candidate'' was a box-office failure is not completely accurate. In fact, Frank Sinatra has the film pulled from circulation after the assassination of President [[John F. Kennedy]], in the fear that his film had provoked [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] to commit this act.<ref name=Osborne>Osborne, Robert. End-of-film commentary on ''The Manchurian Candidate''.</ref>)

(The notion that ''The Manchurian Candidate'' was a box-office failure is not completely accurate. In fact, Frank Sinatra had the film pulled from circulation after the assassination of President [[John F. Kennedy]], in the fear that his film had provoked [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] to commit this act.<ref name=Osborne>Osborne, Robert. End-of-film commentary on ''The Manchurian Candidate''.</ref>)

The movie featured a riveting performance by [[Angela Lansbury]]<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001450/ IMDB website]</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. (The only reason for citing 57 members of this list is that Senator Iselin reads that number on a bottle of Heinz [[Ketchup]].) Frank Sinatra had initially suggested to Director [[John Frankenheimer]] that he cast [[Lucille Ball]] as Mrs. Iselin. But Frankenheimer, who had previously cast and worked with Lansbury in another film, ''[[All Fall Down]]'', showed Sinatra a "rough cut" of a key scene in which Lansbury appeared, and Sinatra agreed that Angela Lansbury would be a better choice.<ref name=Osborne2>Osborne, Robert. Introduction to ''The Manchurian Candidate''.</ref>

The movie featured a riveting performance by [[Angela Lansbury]]<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001450/ IMDB website]</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. (The only reason for citing 57 members of this list is that Senator Iselin reads that number on a bottle of Heinz [[Ketchup]].) Frank Sinatra had initially suggested to Director [[John Frankenheimer]] that he cast [[Lucille Ball]] as Mrs. Iselin. But Frankenheimer, who had previously cast and worked with Lansbury in another film, ''[[All Fall Down]]'', showed Sinatra a "rough cut" of a key scene in which Lansbury appeared, and Sinatra agreed that Angela Lansbury would be a better choice.<ref name=Osborne2>Osborne, Robert. Introduction to ''The Manchurian Candidate''.</ref>