The Manchurian Candidate

Name: The Manchurian Candidate
Director: John Frankenheimer
Released: 1962-10-24T00:00:00+00:00
Rating: 7.5

1962 · TMDB 7.5

Directed by John Frankenheimer

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

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John Frankenheimer's paranoid classic in which a Korean War veteran is brainwashed by communists to become an unwitting assassin, his mind programmed with a trigger phrase and a hidden past.

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Runtime: 126 min
Released: 1962-10-24
Studio: MC Productions
Country: United States of America
Language: English
TMDB score: 7.5

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John Frankenheimer's paranoid classic in which a Korean War veteran is brainwashed by communists to become an unwitting assassin, his mind programmed with a trigger phrase and a hidden past.