The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America, Matthew Frye Jacobson, a professor of American studies, history, and African-American studies at Yale University, and Gaspar González, an ...

The Manchurian Candidate was the first entry in the director’s so-called “paranoia trilogy,” a series of works (including Seven Days in May and Seconds) that examined the darker side of ...

Demme has fashioned a post-Vietnam conspiracy thriller for a post-September 11 age. Like the recurring nightmare that haunts Major Marco, The Manchurian Candidate sends out a coded message.

"THE MANCHURIAN Candidate" is a stylish hoot: entertainingly edgy and ludicrous all at once. Free yourself of those nagging needs for credibility, overlook (or celebrate) its clearly left-wing ...

Yet Demme’s Manchurian Candidate did what remakes should do, which is to reimagine the same material to much different ends. The director took a Cold War freakout about the Korean conflict and ...

MOVIE INFO “The Manchurian Candidate” Drama, Thriller An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. Length: 126 minutes ...

Can the new "Manchurian Candidate" improve on a masterpiece? Members of the cast sit down with NBC's Katie Couric to talk film and politics.

But some “Manchurian Candidate” themes resonate powerfully in this year’s campaign. Condon exposed the cynicism behind right-wing politics for the Cold War Eisenhower years and chillingly ...

In the Cold War movie "The Manchurian Candidate" an American soldier captured by the communists was brainwashed to do damage after he returned; Sanders is doing similar damage to the Democratic Party ...

The Manchurian Candidate”The real danger [in this country] comes from suspending civil liberties,” Jon Voight intones as a principled politician on the side of liberal values, in one of the ...

“The Manchurian Candidate” Even Meryl Streep's a bust in Jonathan Demme's toothless, gutless remake of one of the best political movies ever made. In fact, she's the biggest bust of all.

Based on both the plot in Richard Condon's original 1959 novel and George Axelrod's screenplay adaptation from 1962, Jonathan Demme's The Manchurian Candidate is an unsettling movie about ...