The manchurian candidate 1962
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His programming is triggered by seeing the Queen of Diamonds card while playing solitaire after being induced by his handlers. His heroism was a false memory implanted in the platoon during their brainwashing in Manchuria. Shaw, who broke with the couple immediately upon his return to America, is gradually revealed to have had been programmed by Russian and Chinese communists to be a sleeper agent who will blindly obey orders without any memory of his actions. Meanwhile, Eleanor drives the ascension of Iselin, a McCarthy-like demagogue stirring domestic turmoil and climbing the political ladder based on claims that varying numbers of communists work within the Department of Defense. When Melvin and Marco separately identify the identical two men from their dreams as leading figures in communist governments, Army Intelligence agrees to help Marco investigate. However, Marco learns that another soldier from the platoon, Allen Melvin ( James Edwards), has had the same nightmare. Marco is compelled to investigate, but with no solid evidence to back his claims fails to receive support from his uplines.
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In it, a hypnotized Shaw blithely and brutally murders the two missing soldiers before an assembly of military leaders from the communist nations, during a practical demonstration of a revolutionary brainwashing technique. In the years to follow, Marco, who has since been promoted to major and assigned to Army Intelligence, suffers from a recurring nightmare. When asked to describe him, Marco and the other soldiers automatically respond, "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life," even though Shaw is a cold, sad, unsympathetic loner. Eleanor Iselin ( Angela Lansbury), on behalf of the political career of her husband and Shaw's stepfather, United States Senator John Yerkes Iselin ( James Gregory). Shaw returns to the United States to a hero's welcome where he is exploited by his mother, Mrs. Upon Marco's recommendation, Shaw is awarded the Medal of Honor for saving their lives in combat.
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Three days later, Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw ( Laurence Harvey) and Captain Bennett Marco ( Frank Sinatra) manage to return to UN lines. Army platoon and take it to Manchuria in communist China.
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Plotĭuring the Korean War, the Soviets and Chinese capture a U.S. It was selected in 1994 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It was well-received by critics and was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Lansbury) and Best Editing. The film was released in the United States on October 24, 1962, at the height of U.S.–Soviet hostility during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Officials from China and the Soviet Union employ Shaw as a sleeper agent in an attempt to subvert and take over the United States government. After his discharge back into civilian life, he becomes an unwitting assassin involved in an international communist conspiracy. Shaw was a prisoner of war during the conflict in Korea and while being held was brainwashed by his captors. The plot centers on the Korean War veteran Raymond Shaw, the progeny of a prominent political family.