Manchurian Candidate (1962) This is not the one where Denzel Washington acted in 2004 but rather the original one cast in black and white from a time before I was an embryo. It starts with scenes of Korean War when some American soldiers are caught by their enemies (Russian and Chinese) and transported away on a helicopter. After the show of credits, Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) arrives home from Korean War to be feted as a war hero, much to his annoyance. The whole brouhaha is his mother's mastermind, a conniving opportunist lady who has only one thing on her mind - to make her senator husband, Raymond's stepfather the President of USA. Raymond has had a strained relationship with his mother (Angela Lansbury of 'Murder! She wrote' - Boy, that lady was old even then) and his stepfather. Instead of working for his stepfather, Raymond decides to work as a confidential secretary to a reputable political journalist. The said journalist is, however,...
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