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Certificate PG

Cast Frank Sinatra Laurence Harvey Janet Leigh Angela Lansbury

Directors John Frankenheimer

Screenwriters George Axelrod

Running Time 97 minutes

The Manchurian Candidate
Ahead of its time Nail-biting exercise in political paranoia from the '60s with Frank Sinatra.

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Plot
Raymond Shaw (Harvey) returns from Korea a decorated soldier, but his fellow servers can't remember him doing anything that warranted such reward. Strange psychological ocurrences take place and Shaw begins to think he has been brainwashed and is a potential polical threat.

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