It becomes a classic when the underlying fear factor remains durable for future audiences. Key Things to Look For When Watching This Movie: Ideally, a political thriller should seem prescient or ominous. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me. And then, when I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. Iselin: But now we have come almost to the end. Because they thought it would bind me closer to them.Īngela Lansbury has quite a lot of expository lines that she manages to deliver in a most compelling and nuanced way. I wanted a killer from a world filled with killers and they chose you. And they paid me back by taking your soul away from you.
I’m on the point of winning for them the greatest foothold they will ever have in this country. But you must believe I did not know it would be you. Iselin: I know you will never entirely comprehend this, Raymond. These are the kind of lines every writer looks to put in their script - ones that are both memorable and immediately identifiable as being from their story. My Favorite Dialogue in the Movie: Undoubtedly, the best known dialogue (other than Solitaire) is when Captain Marco intones, “Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.” Nothing quite like a little game of Solitaire…” My Favorite Moment in the Movie: “The cards. You could call The Manchurian Candidate a political thriller or a psychological thriller.
But another former prisoner may know how to save him. IMDb Plot Summary: A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. Lead Actors: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory Writers: Screenplay by George Axelrod, Novel by Richard Condon (1959) Today’s guest post comes from Liz Warner.