![]() Angela Lansbury, who plays his mother, was born less than three years earlier, on October 16, 1925. Laurence Harvey, who plays the brainwashed Raymond Shaw, was born Octo(in Lithuania). It took Frank going directly to Jack Kennedy." 2. Condon later told a Sinatra biographer, "That's the only way the film ever got made. Frank visited JFK, who'd been a fan of the novel, and the president made a personal appeal to UA head Arthur Krim, who was especially apt to listen because he was also the Democratic Party's finance chairman. Lucky for Sinatra, he had friends in high places, including President John F. But the execs at UA thought the subject matter was too politically controversial and wanted nothing to do with it. KENNEDY HELPED IT GET MADE.įrank Sinatra had a deal with United Artists and wanted the studio to make an adaptation of Richard Condon's 1959 novel. Stare intently at the Queen of Hearts and let these behind-the-scenes details wash over you. But the movie is significant for other reasons, too, besides its contribution to the English lexicon. ![]() Since then, whenever a new political figure has emerged from seemingly out of nowhere, a small subsection of paranoiacs has theorized that he or she was a "Manchurian candidate," secretly bent on destroying America. ![]() People who love movies and people who love conspiracy theories have common ground in The Manchurian Candidate, the 1962 Cold War satiric thriller about an American soldier brainwashed by Communists into becoming an assassin. ![]()
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