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John Frankenheimer's 1962 version of The Manchurian Candidate is one of those films that has improved with age, which must have been a worry for all those who set out to remake it more than 40 years later.
Not only did the original have terrific performances from the likes of Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury, the stylised manner in which Frankenheimer told this strange story of communism, conspiracy and mass hypnosis is now seen as a pioneering contribution to that genre best described as 'weird stuff'. The Prisoner TV series, for example, seems nothing like as groundbreaking once you have seen Frankenheimer's film.See the full content of this document
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More of the Weird
Happily, however, the remake team, which includes Silence Of The Lambs director Jonathan Demme and Sinatra's daughter Tina as a producer, have done a pretty decent job. The Sixties style, the communists and the trance-provoking Queen of Diamonds playing card have all gone, but what t...
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