803 - The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 6:33 p.m.

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Ol Blue Eyes is back! \\xa0Back from the Korean War and brainwashed by sinister communist agents, that is. \\xa0Director John Frankenheimer bends minds and our expectations in his stylishly paranoid thriller set in an era of Cold War paranoia, McCarthyism, and presidential assassination.

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If you\\u2019d like to watch ahead for next week\\u2019s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Teinosuke Kinugasa\\u2019s Gate of Hell (1953).

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