"It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood," film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman brainwashed in Korea and made into an assassin. Sophisticated to be sure, it's also a headlong fall thr
No Manchurian Candidate
โ Scribed by Stephen Duso-Bauduin
- Book ID
- 125315981
- Publisher
- Foreign Policy Group
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 129 KB
- Volume
- 137
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0015-7228
- DOI
- 10.2307/3183678
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