'''The Manchurian Candidate''' is a 1962 Hollywood film about a [[Communist]] conspiracy to drug and hypnotize an American [[POW]] into assassinating a candidate for [[President of the United States]]. The film was directed by John Frankenheimer.
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'''The Manchurian Candidate''' is a 1962 Hollywood film about a [[Communist]] conspiracy to drug and hypnotize an American [[POW]] into assassinating a candidate for [[President of the United States]]. The film, based on the 1959 novel by Richard Condon, was directed by John Frankenheimer.