The Manchurian Candidate (1962)








An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 6423

Books on The Manchurian Candidate

Greil Marcus
The Manchurian Candidate
London, 2002

Books with substantial mentioning of The Manchurian Candidate

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Ronald Schwartz
Neo-Noir, The New Film Noir Style from Psycho to Collateral
Lanham, Maryland - Toronto - Oxford, 2005

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 60s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Joseph J. Cocchiarelli
Screen Sleuths, A Filmography
New York & London, 1992

Books with an entry on The Manchurian Candidate

Larry Langman & David Ebner
Encyclopedia of American Spy Films
New York & London, 1990

Articles on The Manchurian Candidate

Simon Braund, Primary killers, in: Empire, nr. 186, 2004 pp. 112-117

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Manchurian Candidate

Kim Newman, The 10 Best Ever Screenplays, in: Empire, nr. 186, 2004 pp. 72-73