The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, ...
Rating: 7.5
Genres Thriller, Drama, War
Original language: en
IMDb tt0056218
Stars
Laurence Harvey as Sergeant Raymond Shaw
Frank Sinatra as Captain Bennett Marco
Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Eleanor Shaw
James Gregory as Major John Yerkes
Khigh Dhiegh as Chunjin
Creators
John Frankenheimer (Director)
George Axelrod (Producer)
Richard Condon (Writer)
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