The Manchurian Candidate
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Sun 30 Nov 1:00 PM
Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
126 Mins
November
1962 | DCP | USA | D: John Frankenheimer
US soldiers are captured by Chinese communists during the Korean War and placed under mind control. Years later, one is manipulated in a plot to assassinate a US presidential candidate.
Starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury, John Frankenheimer’s 1962 thriller deploys political satire, surrealism and psychological paranoia in a stylish black-and-white aesthetic.
‘The Manchurian Candidate is inventive and frisky, takes enormous chances with the audience, and plays not like a ’classic’ but as a work as alive and smart as when it was first released.’ – Robert Ebert
US soldiers are captured by Chinese communists during the Korean War and placed under mind control. Years later, one is manipulated in a plot to assassinate a US presidential candidate.
Starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury, John Frankenheimer’s 1962 thriller deploys political satire, surrealism and psychological paranoia in a stylish black-and-white aesthetic.
‘The Manchurian Candidate is inventive and frisky, takes enormous chances with the audience, and plays not like a ’classic’ but as a work as alive and smart as when it was first released.’ – Robert Ebert
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