The Manchurian Candidate

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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 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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