"It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood," film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman brainwashed in Korea and made into an assassin. Sophisticated to be sure, it's also a headlong fall through the looking-glass of American politics and the most deeply prophetic film of the second half of the American century. As Greil Marcus reconstructs the drama, The Manchurian Candidate is a movie in which the director and actors, including Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury in an Academy Award-nominated performance, were suddenly capable of anything, beyond any expectations. This edition includes a new foreword highlighting the movie's terrifying contemporary relevance in the age of Trump and Russian interference in the US Presidential election.

A study of John Frankenheimer's 1962 political conspiracy thriller The Manchurian Candidate in the BFI Film Classics series

About the Author
Greil Marcus is the author of Double Trouble (2000), Dead Elvis (1999), Lipstick Traces (1989), The Old, Weird America (1997/2001) and Mystery Train (1975). His pieces have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Artforum, Interview, The New Yorker, the New York Times and Esquire. He has taught at Princeton University and the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Reviews
Marcus is a compelling writer, and he hits the nail on the head when he talks of "the Iron Maiden of repression," which sums up Laurence Harvey's acting in The Manchurian Candidate. * The Best American Poetry blog *



Book Information
ISBN 9781838719647
Author Greil Marcus
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 182g