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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MGM HOME VIDEO (UNDER FOX)
EAN: 9780792861584
Feature: Eerie, shocking, daring, thrilling and mesmerizing, The Manchurian Candidate will leave you breathless (People)! Featuring an all-star cast, including Angela Lansbury in an Oscar®-nominated performance, this chilling and controversial (Leonard Maltin) film may be the most sophisticated political satire ever made (Pauline Kael). When a platoon of Korean War G.I.s is captured, they somehow end
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Black & White, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792861582
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoSpanishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledFrenchDubbedSpanishDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: M108741
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Running Time: 126 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: October 24, 1962
Features:- Eerie, shocking, daring, thrilling and mesmerizing, The Manchurian Candidate will leave you breathless (People)! Featuring an all-star cast, including Angela Lansbury in an Oscar®-nominated performance, this chilling and controversial (Leonard Maltin) film may be the most sophisticated political satire ever made (Pauline Kael). When a platoon of Korean War G.I.s is captured, they somehow end
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A Korean war hero is brainwashed and used as a tool in a political assassination plot to be triggered by his domineering mother.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 13-JUL-2004
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video:
You will never find a more chillingly suspenseful, perversely funny, or viciously satirical political thriller than The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon (author of Winter Kills). The film, withheld from distribution by star Frank Sinatra for almost a quarter century after President Kennedy's assassination, has lost none of its potency over time. Former infantryman Bennet Marco (Sinatra) is haunted by nightmares about his platoon having been captured and brainwashed in Korea. The indecipherable dreams seem to center on Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), a decorated war hero but a cold fish of a man whose own mother (Angela Lansbury, in one of the all-time great dragon-lady roles) describes him as looking like his head is "always about to come to a point." Mrs. Bates has nothing on Lansbury's character, the manipulative queen behind her second husband, Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), a notoriously McCarthyesque demagogue. --Jim Emerson
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I don't know if I can add much insight to the already over 200 reviews here, but I did want to make one comment about the brainwashing procedure--the most important and sinister idea in the whole movie--and without which there wouldn't have been a film.
It turns out that there was at least some small basis in fact for this. The Manchurian Candidate came out in 1962 (not sure of the exact date), but anyway, 10 years later I was in college and happened to take an intermediate sociology ... Read More
Rating:  -
This is one of the great Cold War thrillers.
It features Laurence Harvey as Raymond Shaw, Frank Sinatra as Major Bennett Marco, Angela Lansbury as Shaw's mother, Mrs. Iselin, and Janet Leigh as Rose.
Although the story is familiar to most people, I'll recap it briefly. Shaw, Marco, and several fellow soldiers are captured during the Korean War. They are transported to China where they undergo intense brainwashing. When they come back, they are all convinced that Shaw (who ... Read More
Rating: -
The 60s and beginning in the 50s, was the age of political assassination. So many countries including foreign governments used assassination as part of controlling world and national politics. This makes the movie fascinating. There were also instances in the Korean War of attempted brainwashing. All governments were fascinated by the potential of psychological torture and warfare. The Manchurian Candidate is a wonderfully made film about a group of soldiers taken prisoner in Korea then brainwashed ... Read More
Rating:  -
A lot of people will disagree with me here, and I won't fault them a bit. `The Manchurian Candidate' is considered a classic and so just about everyone and their mother is going to be up in arms when they read this review.
I just didn't get it.
That statement isn't to say that I didn't understand it, it's to say that I just didn't get why this could be considered so grand a film. It is touted as one of the most chilling and suspenseful political thrillers of all time, but quite ... Read More
Rating: -
A classic movie. Sinatra is great and the drama builds thru the whole movie. Great!
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