The Manchurian Candidate Comments

  • Loren 2022-12-03 16:24:51

    I thought I could finally see the Korean War film made by the US imperialists, but it turned out to be a fantasy thriller with the Korean War as the...

  • Melody 2022-11-17 03:15:17

    I really like the spirit of the gods ╭(╯ε╰)╮ That actress has a good figure, and those long legs tsk tsk...

  • Brandt 2022-11-11 21:41:34

    Halfway through, I want to hit 4 stars, but only 3 stars are left after watching. The rhythm is too slow. A good Cold War suspense film is slower than a literary film, and it is uncomfortable. In the Cold War, there are many legends about American prisoners of war being brainwashed into spies by the Soviet Union. In fact, there are very few real cases. I dislike Sinatra's performance, he is better at singing honestly. The other starring role is from Lithuania. I didn't even notice it, but I...

  • Oliver 2022-11-05 20:15:55

    The metaphor of this original version is still beautiful, and the ending of the film is very shocking. Laurence Harvey later played a political spy puppet in A Dandy in Aspic...

  • Freddie 2022-10-23 04:24:38

    This idea is very clear and detailed. The play is also very attentive. The fate of some characters in that era was really "connected" with the world, so why not today, although more than one billion people are under high...

  • Eriberto 2022-10-02 16:22:32

    There are many background factors: the Cold War, the fear of communism, the prevalence of ideological research on brainwashing and human control, McCarthy... But after all, like the domestic movies of that era, they are all products of the Cold War era, so the classics of movies can only be Stay at that moment. I don't understand why it was remade in 2004, and it made the "candidate" become the president. It seems that every era has the fear of that era, and fear can make people...

  • Ayla 2022-10-02 01:10:40

    4.5 The empty field under the banner/the moment of...

  • Crawford 2022-09-28 23:22:42

    The true McCarthyism at play in disguise of...

  • Kole 2022-09-23 14:27:24

    Standard U.S.-Soviet Cold War product, representing the official U.S. position during this period. The brainwashed Raymond Shang became an anti-American spy for the Soviet Union, and the code was: why not play solitaire? The story is still quite ups and downs. In the middle and later stages, it is discovered that Raymond's mother secretly colluded with Soviet spies in order to gain political interests, and became the real mastermind behind the manipulation of Raymond, which reminds her of her...

  • Ian 2022-09-22 19:09:05

    1/10, Americans are narcissistic to such a degree that it is really speechless. How shameless to be able to make up such a story. The shooting skills are also unbelievable. In 1962, there were handed down classics such as Lawrence of Arabia and To kill a mockingbird. Compared with these two films, this film can also be listed as a classic? I was completely...

Extended Reading

The Manchurian Candidate quotes

  • Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: No evasions, Mister Secretary, no evasions if you please.

    Secretary of Defense: Evasions? What the hell are you talking about?

    Secretary of Defense: [whispering to Marco] What the hell is this nonsense?

    Marco: [covering the microphones] Mister Secretary, I'm kind of new at this job, but I don't think it's good public relations to speak that way to a US Senator, even if he is an idiot.

    Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: I am United States Senator John Yerkes Iselin, and I have here a list of two hundred seven persons who are known by the Secretary of Defense as being members of the Communist Party!

    Secretary of Defense: [amid shocked reaction from the crowd] What?

    Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: Who nevertheless are still shaping the policy of the Defense Department!

    Secretary of Defense: Senator who?

    Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: I demand an answer, Mister Secretary! There will be no covering up, sir! No covering up!

    Secretary of Defense: How did you get in here in the first place?

  • Mrs. Iselin: [at meal time] I'm sorry, hon'. Would it really make it easier for you if we settled on just one number?

    Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: Yeah. Just one, real, simple number that'd be easy for me to remember.

    [Mrs. Iselin watches her husband thump a bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup onto his plate]

    Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: [addressing the Senate] There are exactly 57 card-carrying members of the Communist Party in the Department of Defense at this time!