Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). CBS's first plunge into prime-time feature films, beginning with The Manchurian Candidate (1962), starring Frank Sinatra (see below...
Maher called the allegation of a terrorist cadre "something out of the Manchurian Candidate." As for PL members Studying Karate, he said that is true. "But a lot of people study karate. The reason is that the mental discipline that goes along with it is attractive to people who think. Many members were studying karate long before they ever heard...
...successful TV series, it is the principal actor who makes the difference. In this case, it is John McGiver, the balding fellow who waited on Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's and whose concise, precise portrayals have lightened other films from Love in the Afternoon to The Manchurian Candidate. Now he's an employee of a department store whose career depends on his ability to persuade people to keep merchandise they are trying to return. Urbanely, he convinces a woman that she should keep a teakettle because of its unique talent for whistling Beethoven's Fifth...
Richard Condon's apocalyptic pocketa-pocketa has produced a resplendent collection of giants, ogres and drowsy princesses, all flimsily disguised as people. They reappear in this grim foray into Hitler-corrupted Germany, but the author of The Manchurian Candidate has turned from dismayed humor to dismaying homily. Condon's current princess is an enormously wealthy, unbelievably beautiful Frenchwoman; though Jewish, she is married to a monocle-twirling Prussian general who cannot see the evil of Hitler until their adored child dies in a Jewish concentration camp. They retaliate by consigning the guilty SS officer to a grisly fate...
...fellow selected to play Grant fails to capitalize on his good fortune, and so what could have been a near-monumental struggle between two men of Bond's stamp comes off as the usual cool hero versus ranting villain showdown. (The actual fight outdoes that famous karate scene in Manchurian Candidate for sheer brutality...