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April 2, 2009
Movies
“The Manchurian Candidate” has an almost delirious paranoid streak.
Oct. 1, 1992
Television
A guide to streaming your favorite Angela Lansbury movies and TV series, from ‘Murder, She Wrote’ to ‘Beauty and the Beast.’
Oct. 12, 2022
Moviegoers can revel in the paranoia of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and ‘The Stepford Wives.’
May 27, 2004
Frank Sinatra has given his personal OK to the re-release of the 1962 movie “The Manchurian Candidate,” in which a Korean War prisoner is brainwashed to assassinate a liberal politician.
Nov. 13, 1987
Twenty-six years after it first opened, the suspense thriller “The Manchurian Candidate,” starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey, is being re-released today by United Artists.
Feb. 12, 1988
It’s interesting and ironic that the most dizzyingly memorable movie to open this week--it’s tempting to say this year--was made in 1962, in sumptuous black and white.
Entertainment & Arts
Similar to its brain-washed Korean War veterans, “The Manchurian Candidate” suffers from an identity crisis.
April 22, 1994
The return of “The Manchurian Candidate” to movie houses after 25 years marks a thrilling comeback for its No. 1 fan, author Richard Condon.
June 4, 1988
Read Philip K. Scheuer’s 1962 reviews of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and ‘Escape From East Berlin’
Sept. 12, 2022