The Manchurian candidate / United Artists ; Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; M.C. Productions ; executive producer, Howard W. Koch ; screenplay by George Axelrod ; produced by George Axelrod and John Frankenheimer ; directed by John Frankenheimer.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva. Title from sell sheet. Based on the novel by Richard Condon. Originally released as a motion picture in 1962. Special features: Commentary (from 1997 featuring director John Frankenheimer); Angela Lansbury (new interview with the actor); Errol Morris (new interview with the filmmaker); George Axelrod, John Frankenheimer, and Frank Sinatra (conversation recorded in 1988 between director John Frankenheimer, screenwriter George Axelrod, and actor Frank Sinatra discussing the films' production); Susan Carruthers (new interview with the historian and author); Trailer. Insert includes an essay by critic Howard Hampton. Special features: Audio commentary from 1997 featuring director John Frankenheimer; new interview with actor Angela Lansbury; new piece featuring filmmaker Errol Morris; conversation between Frankenheimer, George Axelrod, and Frank Sinatra from 1988; new interview with historian Susan Carruthers; trailer; essay by critic Howard Hampton.
Summary:
Set in the early fifties, this razor-sharp adaptation of the novel by Richard Condon concerns the decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw, who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW who slowly uncovers the sinister plot.
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