Which brings up George Axelrod's screenplay. After asking Marco if he speaks Arabic, she says, 'Let me put it another way. Their conversation is rife with hidden and not-so-hidden meanings, as they discuss Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, the Columbus football team, railway lines, and her two names - Eugenie (for her fragile side) and her nickname Rosie. Janet Leigh's Rosie is a beguiling siren who befriends Marco on a train. John Iselin (James Gregory), ever closer to the White House with media-conscious Commie-hunting meanwhile she torments her son with icy manipulation. A hard-driving political wife, she pushes her brainless husband, Sen. Adding further potency to Sinatra's and Harvey's performances is Angela Lansbury - wonderfully malignant as Sgt. To tell more would spoil an engaging cloak-and-dagger scenario, but he discovers a political conspiracy involving the Queen of Diamonds card, American double agents and the Korean spylord Yen Lo (Khigh Dhiegh), among others. Marco investigates further, a mission that involves probing his own mind as well as others'. Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra at his tough-talking best), recall fitful images of that mysterious three-day session in their dreams. Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), who promptly receives the Congressional Medal of Honor upon everyone's return to the United States. The next thing the Americans know, they've apparently been rescued from enemy lines by Sgt. In the Korean Conflict, a party of GIs is captured and brainwashed by a coalition of Koreans, Chinese and Soviets. And its story of Cold War intrigue, murky East-West dealings, assassination, brainwashing - and the idea of a glorified cue-card reader playing president - resonates today like never before. Now re-released after a 15-year absence, its mobile camera and fluid editing still dazzle.

John Frankenheimer's 'The Manchurian Candidate' was a bold venture in 1962, with its flashy technique and political themes.

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