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THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
January 29, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Frank Sinatra, who co-stars, and whose film company produced this grim 1962 movie about brainwashing, political conspiracies and assassination attempts, was long thought to have withdrawn the film from circulation after John F. Kennedy was assassinated the following year, disturbed by the parallels between life and art. However, the movie wasn’t pulled for about a decade, and it turns out to have been because of a simple contract dispute with the movie distributor. No matter: The Manchurian Candidate is such a raw, hypnotic, disturbing drama, it doesn’t need any hype. Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury co-star – and Lansbury, in particular, is amazing. Much better than the 2004 remake.

 
 
 
 
 
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