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'''The Manchurian Candidate''' is a 1962 movie with a far-fetched plot <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 [http://www.filmsite.org/manc.html] Actually, the movie only "failed at the box-office" because it was withdrawn shortly after its release due to an unexpected event that had some similarities with the movie:  the assassination of President [[John F. Kennedy]] by someone who had traveled to communist countries.</ref> about a Communist conspiracy to drug and hypnotize an American POW into assassinating a candidate for President of the United States. [[Frank Sinatra]] portrayed an army officer who uncovers the plot.  
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'''The Manchurian Candidate''' is a 1962 movie about a Communist conspiracy to drug and hypnotize an American POW into assassinating a candidate for President of the United States. [[Frank Sinatra]] portrayed an army officer who uncovers the plot.  
  
 
A key premise of the movie was that it was possible to [[brainwash]] an unsuspecting prisoner into committing [[murder]]:
 
A key premise of the movie was that it was possible to [[brainwash]] an unsuspecting prisoner into committing [[murder]]:

Revision as of 18:38, January 12, 2008

The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 movie about a Communist conspiracy to drug and hypnotize an American POW into assassinating a candidate for President of the United States. Frank Sinatra portrayed an army officer who uncovers the plot.

A key premise of the movie was that it was possible to brainwash an unsuspecting prisoner into committing murder:

... 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 [1]

The movie featured a riveting performance by Angela Lansbury[2] 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 movie was remade with Denzel Washington in the Sinatra role and Liev Schreiber as a the assassin controlled by a microchip brain implant. The bad guys in the remake are not communists, but simply people with a political agenda.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named filmsite
  2. ↑ IMDB website
  3. ↑ 'Rotten Tomatoes' Plot Summary
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