The film’s main themes have since become tied to both Kennedy assassinations as well as the Red Scare and McCarthyism. Released in 1962, the film follows Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), a Korean War veteran who has been captured and conditioned by Chinese communists to become an assassin. By Jacob Schaffel-Scherrer “Why don’t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?” These seemingly innocent words are turned chilling as they are spoken to trigger the brainwashing of a United States soldier in John Frankenheimer’s neo-noir/political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate.
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