February 16, 2007

'The Manchurian Candidate'

By ALEXANDER C. KAFKA

John Frankenheimer's exceptional, and exceptionally weird, film of Richard Condon's 1959 novel, The Manchurian Candidate, memorably melds McCarthyism and communist conspiracy. In their book, What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America, Matthew Frye Jacobson, a professor of American studies, history, and African-American studies at Yale University, and Gaspar González, an independent scholar and journalist in Miami, explore the production's origins,

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