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Dominican Rep. The Manchurian Candidate
4,213
Mystery
In Korea in 1952, a US Army patrol is ambushed by Communist soldiers. A year later the squad, having escaped, returns to the US, where Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is to receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly saving the lives of the squad. Shaw is the son of Elanor Iselin, wife of US Senator John Yerkes Iselin, and Mrs. Iselin turns the return of Raymond into a political rally that brings out building hostility ... [+]
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"Angela Lansbury's frighteningly in-check performance is alone worth the trip." | POS |
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"It may be the most sophisticated political satire ever made in Hollywood" | POS |
United Kingdom |
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"A dazzling spy thriller that’s still amazing." | POS |
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United States |
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"A veritable salad of mixed genres and emotional textures, this exciting black-and-white cold war thriller runs more than two hours and never flags for an instant" | NEU |
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"Here is a movie that was made more than 25 years ago, and it feels as if it were made yesterday. Not a moment of The Manchurian Candidate lacks edge and tension and a cynical spin" | POS |
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"Manchurian, with its fatalistic, dreamlike quality, comprises two of [Frankenheimer's] finest hours" | POS |
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"The fascinating thing is that, from uncertain premise to shattering conclusion, one does not question plausibility of the events being rooted in their own cinematic reality." | POS |
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Time Out | "It’s a sensational piece of genre filmmaking: pacy, compelling, witty and cynical, it depicts, in unflinching detail, the beginning of the end for post-war American optimism." | POS |
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"It seems a small miracle that 'The Manchurian Candidate' is able to maintain its mad balancing act as long as it does. That the film slips near the end is a sign of how very hard it is" | POS |
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