The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

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A suspenseful cold war thriller in which a Korean War hero is brainwashed by communists and returned to America to do their bidding. A dark and twisting tale with a dark ending, Lansbury excels as the coldly vicious mother, while the portrayal of the way the soldiers' minds have been completely overthrown is still shocking.

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Article - "Watching the Spies" by Barry Forshaw
Monday 29th January 2007

While espionage has long been one of the most reliably engrossing of literary genres, it’s simultaneously been a godsend to the cinema, where the dark psychological areas explored by the great spy novelists can find the perfect visual equivalents. As with these excel...  View article in full

Article - "All Eyes on Me: Paranoia in Cinema" by James Oliver
Tuesday 11th September 2007

Like all art, movies reflect the culture in which they were created. So it's no wonder that the movies made since the second world war are awash with paranoia. The modern world has provided ideal conditions for paranoia to thrive in. It's not just the moonbats who th...  View article in full

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