The Manchurian Candidate 1962

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Call Number: Blu-ray Drama Manchurian
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Drama Manchurian	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Title from sell sheet.
Based on the novel by Richard Condon.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
Widescreen (1.85:1).
Special features: Audio commentary from 1997 featuring director John Frankenheimer; new interview with actor Angela Lansbury; new piece featuring filmmaker Errol Morris; conversation between Frankenheimer, George Axelrod, and Frank Sinatra from 1988; new interview with historian Susan Carruthers; trailer; essay by critic Howard Hampton.
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva.
Set in the early fifties, this razor-sharp adaptation of the novel by Richard Condon concerns the decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw, who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW who slowly uncovers the sinister plot.
Blu-ray, widescreen (1.85:1); monaural; requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Extraordinarily memorable. submitted by lisa on July 29, 2019, 4:05pm Super-frightening. MEGA-tense.