The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate was first produced in 1962 and is an American Cold War suspense thriller film which was directed by John Frankenheimer.  The screenplay was produced by George Axelrod based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel. It stars actors such as; Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh. In addition to that, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, and James Gregory as excess actors. The film is basically about the son of a prominent, right-wing political family which has been brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. In addition to that, the film is about a former Korean War POW which was brainwashed by Communists. They then turned him into a political assassin. The other side to it was that one of the prisoners remembers a few things and finds ways in order to remember the past with a bit of help. The film was released on Wednesday 24^th October 1962 at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The film was well established and ended up receiving a nominations for two Academy Awards. 

• Director: John Frankenheimer
• Writers: Richard Condon (Creater of novel) and George Axelrod 

This Manchurian Candidate was produced in 2004 as an American thriller film based on the 1959 novel that Richard Condon created. It was a reimage of the previous 1962 film. The main actor in this film was Denzel Washington as Bennett Marco. He acted as a stubborn, virtuous soldier who set a quest to remember the past and figure out who he really is. The film also starred people such as; Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw. He was a U.S. Representative from New York and he was manipulated into becoming a vice-presidential candidate. Also, Jon Voight who starred as Tom Jordan was a U.S. Senator and also the challenger for the vice president position. The last important actor was Meryl Streep as Eleanor Prentiss Shaw. She was a senator who was manipulative and a ruthless mother of Raymond Shaw. The film was basically about during the midst of the Gulf War, some soldiers were kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

• Director: Jonathan Demme
• Writers: Richard Condon (Creater of novel), George Axelrod, Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris