Tuesday, December 30, 2025

“The Manchurian Candidate”


“The Manchurian Candidate” is the restored, 1962 political thriller, directed by John Frankenheimer, based on the novel by Richard Condon, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva and James Gregory, now streaming for free on Tubi:


“…’Korean War’ vet ‘Raymond Shaw’, part of a prominent political family, is brainwashed by communists after his ‘Army’ platoon is captured. 


“He returns to civilian life in the US where he becomes an unwitting assassin in an international conspiracy…
 

“…with representatives from China and the ‘Soviet Union’, planning to kill a presidential nominee…”


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