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- Frank SinatraMajor Bennett Marco
- Laurence HarveyRaymond Shaw
- Janet LeighEugenie Rose Chaney
- Angela LansburyMrs. Iselin
- Henry SilvaChunjin
- James GregorySenator John Yerkes Iselin
- Leslie ParrishJocelyn Jordan
- John McGiverSenator Thomas Jordan
- Khigh DhieghDr. Yen Lo
- James EdwardsCorporal Allen Melvin
- Douglas HendersonColonel Milt
- Albert PaulsenZilkov
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Manchurian Candidate: Directed by John Frankenheimer. With Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury. An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
- (81K)
- Drama, Thriller
- John Frankenheimer
- 1962-10-24
The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American neo-noir psychological political thriller film directed and produced by John Frankenheimer. The screenplay is by George Axelrod, based on the 1959 Richard Condon novel The Manchurian Candidate.
The film, based on Richard Condon 's 1959 novel of the same name and a reworking of the previous 1962 film, stars Denzel Washington as Bennett Marco, a tenacious, virtuous soldier; Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw, a U.S. Representative from New York, manipulated into becoming a vice-presidential candidate; Jon Voight as U.S. Senator Tom Jordan, a...
Novel. George Axelrod. Screenplay. 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.
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) was directed by Jonathan Demme, and starred Liev Schreiber as Shaw, Denzel Washington as Marco, and Meryl Streep as Eleanor. It was generally well received by critics, and moderately successful at the box office.
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