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Like Arthur Penn and George Roy Hill, John Frankenheimer began his career as a television director. Though he has made some good movies since (such as The Manchurian Candidate), his staging of Iceman has the intensity and immediacy that characterized the best early TV drama. He also catches, rather better than Sidney Lumet did in his 1960 TV production for Play of the Week, the play's roiling richness, the tidal flow from realistic melodrama into tragedy...
...Soviet Union, however, has been reluctant even to discuss the issue, fearing that any settlement might set a bad precedent in its dispute with China over territory along the Manchurian border. During the first rounds of Tanaka's negotiations in Moscow, it seemed that a dialogue of the deaf was in the making. While Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev expanded at length on specific opportunities for Japanese participation in Siberian development, Tanaka tenaciously stuck to the island issue...
...Manchurian Candidate. Frank Sinatra in a thriller about a Communist secret agent who was brainwashed by the Chinese after his capture in the Korean War. Brattle. 5:15, 9:35. --L.R.C...
Laurence Harvey, who once played the Manchurian candidate, appears here as a Moscow commissar, sporting the kind of heavy leather trench coat that suggests Slavic villainy the way a black stetson in a western signals evil. He takes special delight in tor turing Jews. After inflicting one especially impassioned beating, Harvey makes his way out of the traditionally dank subterranean cell as an awestruck underling inquires, "What now? Are you going back to the office...
QUINCY HOUSE DINING HALL: Manchurian Candidate...