"If you come in five minutes after this picture begins," run the advertisements for The Manchurian Candidate, "you won't know what it's all about." And, in fact, a latecomer would enter in the ...

In the classic 1962 Cold War movie, “The Manchurian Candidate,” a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Korea is kidnapped, drugged and brainwashed by Chinese and Russian communists. Purpose ...