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The Manchurian canditate

Title
The Manchurian canditate / George Axelrod [and John Frankenheimer].
Author
Axelrod, George.
Publication
Eye, Suffolk : ScreenPress Pub., ©2002.

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Additional Authors
Frankenheimer, John, 1930-2002
Description
95 pages
Summary
Screenplay based on Richard Condon's 1959 Cold War thriller... It's the story of Sgt. Raymond Shaw, an ex-prisoner of war (and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor) who, brainwashed with the rest of his unit by a Chinese psychological expert during his captivity in North Korea, has come home programmed to kill. His primary target is a U.S. presidential nominee.
Series Statement
Turner classic movies
Alternative Title
Manchurian candidate
Subject
  • Motion picture plays
  • screenplays
  • Filmkunst
Genre/Form
  • Satire.
  • Political fiction.
  • Suspense fiction.
  • Spy films.
  • Feature films.
Note
  • "Special edition screenplay ... in association with Turner Classic Movies as a supplement to Sight and Sound January 2002. Original screenplay by George Axelrod and John Frankenheimer (uncredited)."
Credits (note)
  • Based on a novel by Richard Condon.
OCLC
  • ocn944147020
  • 944147020
  • SCSB-1834911
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library