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Title:
The Manchurian candidate [DVD video]
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
[Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Abstract:
Set in the early fifties, this razor-sharp adaptation of the novel by Richard Condon concerns the decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw, who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW who slowly uncovers the sinister plot.
General Note:
Title from container.
Based on the novel by Richard Condon.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
Special features: Audio commentary from 1997 featuring director John Frankenheimer; new interview with actor Angela Lansbury; new piece featuring filmmaker Errol Morris; conversation between Frankenheimer, George Axelrod, and Frank Sinatra from 1988; new interview with historian Susan Carruthers; trailer; essay by critic Howard Hampton.
Performers:
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva.
Technical Details:
DVD, widescreen (1.85:1); mono.
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Language:
English
Additional Language:
English audio.
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