The Manchurian Candidate

Category: Movies •

Genre: Thriller • Drama •

Rating: 7.525

Director: John Frankenheimer,

Writer: Richard Condon (Novel), George Axelrod (Screenplay),

Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh, James Gregory, Henry Silva, Leslie Parrish, John McGiver, Khigh Dhiegh, James Edwards, Douglas Henderson, Albert Paulsen, Barry Kelley, Lloyd Corrigan, Madame Spivy, Bess Flowers, Leoda Richards, Reggie Nalder, Colin Kenny, Bert Stevens, Arthur Tovey, Paul Frees, Whit Bissell, James Yagi, Tom Lowell, Joe Adams, Merritt Bohn, Robert Riordan, Raoul Freeman, Rudy Germane, Herschel Graham, Stuart Hall,

Language: en

Country: USA

Release Date: October 24, 1962

Plot: 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, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.