B00020X88Y

027616911131

1962

1962-10-24

126

2h 6min

Nominated for 2 Oscars, 5 wins & 8 nominations total

John Frankenheimer

Richard Condon, George Axelrod, John Frankenheimer

Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh

George Axelrod, John Frankenheimer, Howard W. Koch

David Amram

Lionel Lindon

Ferris Webster

Richard Sylbert

Philip M. Jefferies

George R. Nelson

Moss Mabry

Ron Berkeley, Jack Freeman, Bernard Ponedel, Gene Shacove, Mary Westmoreland, Dorothy Parkinson

Joseph C. Behm, Read Killgore, David Salven

Arden Cripe, Philip M. Jefferies, Richard Borland, Lucius O. Croxton, John M. Elliott, Seymour Klate, Richard M. Rubin, Gaylin P. Schultz, Joseph S. Toldy

Joe Edmondson, Del Harris, Buddy Myers, Bill Flannery, Paul Wolfe

A. Paul Pollard

Gordon Doversola, Beau Vanden Ecker, Joe Gray, Robert Buzz Henry, John Indrisano

John Mehl, Felix Barlow, Robert Campbell, Bill Craemer, Eugene Levitt, William Read Woodfield

Wesley Jeffries, Angela Alexander, Morris Brown, Ron Talsky, Rose Viebeck

Carl Mahakian

David Amram, Richard Carruth, Vinton Vernon, David Amram, Vince De Rosa, Paul Horn, Manny Klein, Harold Land, Jack Nimitez

Amalia Wade, Grace Dubray, Mollie Kent

Thom Conroy, Gene Martell

Drama, Thriller

M.C. Productions

USA

English, Spanish

PG-13

7.9

75639

94

The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American neo-noir psychological political thriller film directed and produced by John Frankenheimer. The screenplay is by George Axelrod, based on the 1959 Richard Condon novel The Manchurian Candidate. The film s leading actors are Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, with co-stars Janet Leigh, Henry Silva, and James Gregory.

The plot centers on Korean War veteran Raymond Shaw, part of a prominent political family. Shaw is brainwashed by communists after his Army platoon is captured. He returns to civilian life in the United States, where he becomes an unwitting assassin in an international communist conspiracy. The group, which includes representatives of the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union, plans to assassinate the presidential nominee of an American political party leading to the overthrow of the U.S. government.

The film was released in the United States on October 24, 1962, at the height of U.S.–Soviet hostility during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was widely acclaimed by Western critics and was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Lansbury) and Best Editing. It was selected in 1994 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant .

$2,200,000 (estimated)

$87,850

$2,757,256

$2,757,256

Conspiracy,korean war,brainwashed assassin,communist conspiracy,recurring nightmare