The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer, 1962): Prince Charles Cinema, 5.40pm
This film is a 35mm presentation.
Chicago Reader review:
One of the strangest and most mercurial movies ever made in Hollywood
(1962). A veritable salad of mixed genres and emotional textures, this
exciting black-and-white cold war thriller runs more than two hours and
never flags for an instant. Produced by director John Frankenheimer and
screenwriter George Axelrod, the film was made with an unusual amount of
freedom, which pays off in multiple dividends. It’s conceivably the
only commercial American film that deserves to be linked with the French
New Wave, full of visual and verbal wit that recalls Orson Welles.
Angela Lansbury and Laurence Harvey, both brilliantly cast, have never
been better; Sinatra and Janet Leigh have never been used as weirdly;
and the talented secondary cast—including James Gregory, James Edwards,
Leslie Parrish, John McGiver, and Khigh Dhiegh—is never less than
effective. A powerful experience, alternately corrosive with dark
parodic humor, suspenseful, moving, and terrifying.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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