The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
"When you've seen it all, you'll swear there's never been anything like it!"
Critics Score
🎬 96%
(RT: 97%, MC: 94) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Laurence Harvey as Raymond Shaw
Leslie Parrish as Jocelyn Jordan
Is The Manchurian Candidate good?
Most people think so. 83% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 96%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot. Wikipedia ↗
