A similar phenomenon has been linked to the film The Manchurian Candidate, John Frankenheimer's 1962 Cold War thriller about a U.S. soldier who is abducted during the Korean War and spirited away ...

First, he remade the Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn vehicle Charade as The Truth About Charlie, with Mark Wahlberg in the Grant role, and now he's remade 1962's The Manchurian Candidate, arguably the ...

“The Manchurian Candidate” (John Frankenheimer, 1962) at 7 p.m. on American Movie Classics. This startling thriller takes Richard Condon’s audacious novel about brainwashing and p… ...

Find out why The Manchurian Candidate (1962) was selected for the list. ... There are no ghosts or demons in The Manchurian Candidate, but there are monsters.

The exact nature of “Manchurian Candidate” may be hard to define, but perhaps “suspense melodrama” is the best term. Its story of the tracking down of a brainwashed Korean war “hero ...