Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) - (Movie Clip) Can You See The Red Queen?

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) - (Original Trailer)

A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill in the original The Manchurian Candidate (1962) starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury, from the novel by Richard Condon.

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Arabic?

Now on an leave from his Army P-R job after nearly cracking-up over his recurring Korean War prison camp dream, Marco (Frank Sinatra) meets sympathetic but wholly un-connected train passenger Rosie (Janet Leigh), in The Manchurian Candidate, 1962, from the Richard Condon novel.

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Our American Visitors

First scene for Marco (Frank Sinatra) since his capture in the Korean War, and first look at his dream, with the garden club lady (Maye Henderson), Chinese brain-washer Yen Lo (Khigh Dheigh), and fellow prisoner Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), among others, in The Manchurian Candidate, 1962.

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Kinda New At This Job

Busy scene by director John Frankenheimer, Marco (Frank Sinatra) is press aide to the defense secretary (Barry Kelley), who is ambushed by Senator Iselin (James Gregory), husband of Angela Lansbury, the scheming mom of his fellow Korean War POW friend, in The Manchurian Candidate, 1962.

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) That Communist Tart!

Brain-washed former Korean War POW Raymond (Laurence Harvey), now under friendly investigation by his colleague Marco (Frank Sinatra), recalls a summer with Josie (Leslie Parrish), her senator father (John McGiver), and his mother (Angela Lansbury) ruining it, in The Manchurian Candidate, 1962.

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) My Two Little Boys

Early on, we know only that returning Korean War hero Raymond (Laurence Harvey) was part of a squad kidnapped by the enemy, his mother (Angela Lansbury) and her husband, dopey senator Iselin (James Gregory), stealing the march, in John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate, 1962.