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Richard Condon is also technically a comic novelist (although purists fond of wedging hyphens between split hairs might call him a serio-comic or even a calamito-comic novelist). He is the author of The Manchurian Candidate, a comic eruption that simply as comedy ranks with the best funny novels done recently in the U.S.-that is, with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Richard Bissell's 7½ Cents and Peter De Vries's Comfort Me with Apples. But Condon is something more. He is a comedian who throws his custard pies in black anger, with intent...
...sacks and millions of six-packs of cola. The Ideal Toy Corp. has pledged $3,000,000 in promotion to have its products shown in a forthcoming Lewis film. Debbie Reynolds' dog will soon go dough-eyed over Red Heart Dog Food in My Six Loves. In The Manchurian Candidate, the camera lingers long on the marquee of Jilly's Restaurant, as if it were the only one in New York. The owner is a pal of Star Frank Sinatra, and the plug was merely a favor...
...Manchurian Candidate. In this self-consciously "different" movie about a posthypnotic political assassination, Laurence Harvey's brains are washed, tumble-dried and dyed Red in a Chinese P.W. camp, and he ends up stalking a U.S. presidential candidate with murderous intent...
...Manchurian Candidate is so absurd that a synopsis of it reads like bad science fiction. Yet every detail of the film is so expertly done that one has doubts about it only after he leaves the theater. John Frankenheimer's direction (up to some of the best efforts of Hitchcock or Orson Welles) and uniformly excellent performances create an hypnotic suspense that allows no time to appraise the plausibility of what is going on. It is one simply of those rare movies that the viewer hopes will never...
Several critics have taken the producers of the film to task for irresponsibility in distorting reality merely to obtain "wild effects." Certainly, there is a total disregard of credibility in it, but a motion picture so perfect in execution and so thoroughly entertaining as The Manchurian Candidate has not been around for months...