50th Anniversary! THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, 1962, March 29, 2012

Thursday, March 29 – 7:30 PM
50th Anniversary! THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, 1962, Park Circus, 126 min. Dir. John Frankenheimer. Former POW Frank Sinatra tries to connect the dots when decorated comrade Laurence Harvey starts acting strangely, only to have a nightmarish labyrinth unravel in his lap. Korean War brainwashing, Harvey’s rich control-freak mother (Angela Lansbury), her right-wing candidate hubby (James Gregory in a savage parody of Sen. Joseph McCarthy) and an assassination plot mesh in this suspenseful adaptation of Richard Condon’s satirical thriller. With Janet Leigh. [35mm]

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