When Melvin and Marco separately identify identical photos of the two male communist leaders from their dreams, Army Intelligence agrees to investigate.
Marco learns that Allen Melvin, a fellow soldier, has the same nightmare. In fact, Shaw is a strict, cold, unsympathetic loner hated by his men.Īfter Marco is promoted to major and assigned to Army Intelligence, he has a recurring nightmare: a hypnotized Shaw blithely murders two soldiers from his platoon before an assembly of communist military leaders to demonstrate their revolutionary brainwashing technique. When asked to describe Shaw, the soldiers in his unit uniformly respond that he is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being they have ever known. Shaw returns to the U.S., where his mother, Eleanor Iselin, exploits his heroism to further the political career of her husband, Senator John Iselin. Upon Marco's recommendation, Shaw is awarded the Medal of Honor for saving his soldiers' lives in combat, though two men were killed. Three days later, Sergeant Raymond Shaw and Captain Bennett "Ben" Marco return to UN lines. Army platoon during the Korean War, taking them to communist China. Soviet and Chinese soldiers capture a U.S. It was selected in 1994 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It was widely acclaimed by Western critics and was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Angela Lansbury) and Best Editing. The film was released in the United States on October 24, 1962, at the height of U.S.–Soviet hostility during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The group, which includes representatives of the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union, plans to assassinate the presidential nominee of an American political party, with the death leading to the overthrow of the U.S. He returns to civilian life in the United States, where he becomes an unwitting assassin in an international communist conspiracy.
Shaw is brainwashed by communists after his Army platoon is captured. The plot centers on Korean War veteran Raymond Shaw, part of a prominent political family. The film's leading actors are Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, with co-stars Janet Leigh, Henry Silva, and James Gregory. The screenplay is by George Axelrod, based on the 1959 Richard Condon novel The Manchurian Candidate. The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American neo-noir psychological political thriller film directed and produced by John Frankenheimer.
$7.7 million or $3.3 million (US/Canada)
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