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Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva
| THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE is a movie directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962. Based on a Richard Condon novel.
Laurence Harvey and his platoon have been kidnapped by Russians in the middle of the Korean war. After having been brainwashed and hypnotized during three days, they are released. Harvey is decorated as a war hero and begins to work as a journalist. His mother's second husband, Senator John Iselin, is campaigning in order to obtain the republican investigation. Meanwhile, Frank Sinatra and other members of the platoon have recurrent dreams about their captivity period. One understands soon that Harvey is unconsciously manipulated by the Russian secret services who can hypnotize him whenever it's necessary in order to make him do what he's meant to do. Who must he kill ? A must of the political fiction genre. | ||
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Plot Time/Era of Movie: Legal/Political Thriller? Yes Political Plotlets: - election campaign - preventing an assassination Actual chase scenes or violence - 10 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40 % Main Character Identity: - Male Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Eccentric: Yes - deluded - emotionally unstable Hair style - - short/standard straight (man) Body type - average (man) Events of movie makes character more... - aggressive Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American) How sensitive is this character? - hard edged Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor Intelligence - Average intelligence Physique - average physique Secondary Main Character Identity: - Male Hair style Body type - average build (man) How much in movie? - 80% Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American) Main Adversary Identity: - a criminal organization Has special powers? Yes Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - mind control How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 80% Ethnicity/Nationality - Russian Setting United States Yes The US: - Northeast Asia/Pacific Yes Asian country: - the Koreas City? Yes City: - New York Misc setting - moving train Style Accounts of torture and death? - gory visuals of deaths Movie makes you feel... - excited How many deaths in film? - 4-8 Sex/nudity in movie? Yes What kind of sex: - kissing Kind of violence: - mission to destroy something - mental battles - karate chop - hand to hand - guns Unusual forms of death - asphyxiation - perforation--bullets Check here if B&W Yes Is this movie based on a - book |
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