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BRAINWASHED.("The Manchurian Candidate")
Most people know John Frankenheimer's movie "The Manchurian Candidate," which stars Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury in the story of an American soldier who is captured in Korea and programmed by Chinese Communists to kill on command. And most people probably think of the movie as a classic of Cold War culture, like "On the Beach" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"--a popular work articulating the anxieties of an era. In fact, "The Manchurian Candidate" was a flop. It was released in the fall of 1962, failed to recover its costs, and was pulled from distribution two years later, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It turned up a ...
- What have they built you to do?; The Manchurian candidate and Cold War...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2007 700+ words
...they built you to do?; The Manchurian candidate and Cold War America. Jacobson, Matthew...the political culture of the Cold War. Among their perspectives...Queen and the American family, Cold War courtship, and echoes from...
- Screening Politics: The Politician in American Movies/What Have They Built You...
- Magazine article from: Film International Coyne, Michael July 1, 2009 700+ words
...24.95 What Have They Built You To Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America, Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzlez...four decades. In the atomic age, through the Cold War, the excesses of the witch-hunts, the struggle...
- 'Manchurian Candidate' is a loser; Company threat, not Cold War, in botched...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 30, 2004 700+ words
...remake of "The Manchurian Candidate." Mr. Washington...of a byzantine Cold War conspiratorial...also titled "The Manchurian Candidate," Raymond is...Wind"? The new "Manchurian Candidate" would be more...
- `Manchurian Candidate' remake presents new-world villains.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Holleman, Joe July 31, 2004 700+ words
...after the original "The Manchurian Candidate" was released, an updated...Harvey in the original "Manchurian Candidate" (1962). The Cold War, the space race and the...scary topic during the Cold War, and the Commies (we...
- Brain drain: 'The Manchurian Candidate'.(Screen)(Movie Review)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Alleva, Richard September 10, 2004 700+ words
...narrative, Jonathan Demme has transformed The Manchurian Candidate, turning the classic cold-war pulp thriller into a fictional sibling of...lacking a peaceful American homefront. If the cold war of the earlier Candidate provoked paranoia...
- The enemy is close to home in new `Manchurian Candidate'.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Lawson, Terry August 4, 2004 700+ words
...version of "The Manchurian Candidate," John Frankenheimer...icy, paranoiac Cold War thriller. Withheld...met by Demme's "Manchurian Candidate," which hews fairly...you will, "The Manchurian Candidate," at least, is...
- The Manchurian Candidate.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Biskind, Peter May 14, 1988 700+ words
...Blind Boys of Alabama. The Manchurian Candidate is a wonderful piece of cold war kitsch. Made in 1962...is about to change. The Manchurian Candidate has been placed in general...favorite conceit of the cold war liberals, in their pathetic...
- The Manchurian Candidate. (West Coast Ensemble, Los Angeles, California)
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Magazine Lochte, Dick June 1, 1994 700+ words
In 1959, Richard Condon wrote The Manchurian Candidate, a dark, best-selling Cold War novel about Red-baiting, brain-washing, political assassination and motherly lust that playwright George Axelrod and director...
