Word: manchurian
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...Commander James Stockdale (who would retire as an admiral and run for Vice President in 1992 with Ross Perot) driven to such despondency in prison that he attempts suicide. Here is the Navy's Richard Stratton "playing the Manchurian candidate," he says, pretending to be brainwashed when paraded before propaganda cameras. Forced into the same mock show, Commander Jeremiah Denton blinks out T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse code with his eyelids. Lieut. Paul Galanti casually displays both middle fingers before the cameras (only to have the obscene gesture airbrushed out by LIFE magazine...
Enjoy "The Manchurian Candidate"? So did Mossad, it seems -- too much, if a report in an Israeli newspaper is to be believed. Ha'aretz, normally a sedate read, went wild Wednesday with claims that the Cold War flick inspired Israeli intelligence agents to hypnotize a young Arab prisoner into attempting to assassinate Yasser Arafat nearly 30 years ago. The plot, allegedly the brainchild of Major Benjamin Shalit, chief psychologist in the Israeli navy, seems too ridiculous for words -- the 28-year old Palestinian, codename "Fathi," was supposedly brainwashed and dispatched over the border with an exploding two-way radio...
...Kane (1941). Orson Welles' masterwork remains the ur-text of film schools worldwide because it blew wide open the envelope of cinematic possiblity. Mean Streets (1973). The gritty realism of Scorsese's breakthrough movie began the stylish exploration of the low-rent wiseguy that he completed in "Goodfellas." The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The finest American political film ever goes deep and noir into the fear and loathing at the heart of Washington, D.C. The Getaway (1972). Noir cinema reaches its apotheosis with Peckinpah's rendering of Jim Thompson. Throw in the coolest white man ever (Steve McQueen...
...there was Suddenly, The Man with the Golden Arm, Some Came Running, Pal Joey, A Hole in the Head, The Joker Is Wild, The Manchurian Candidate. These are not the credits of a dabbler. Despite his professed approach to the craft, which was breezy to the point of gale force, he kept company with junkies for Golden Arm and hung around with cops whenever he had to play on the cool side of the law. He did his homework. He just didn't want anyone to see his notes...
...Manchurian Candidate (1962) John Frankenheimer directs Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury in this classic and savvy political chiller. Not Sinatra's best role, but his best movie. Worth it for the garden-party scene alone...