The Manchurian Candidate

Name: The Manchurian Candidate
Director: John Frankenheimer
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1962-10-24
Rating: 7.502

When you've seen it all, you'll swear there's never been anything like it!

Film19622h 6mReleased

DramaThriller

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Director: John Frankenheimer
Language: English
Released: 1962-10-24
Runtime: 2h 6m

Community score

7.5820 votes on TMDB

Confidence

Rating weighted by how many people voted

7.2

The story

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.