The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Actors: Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Barry Kelley (actor), Nicky Blair (actor), Laurence Harvey (actor), John Indrisano (actor), Joe Gray (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Lloyd Corrigan (actor), Paul Frees (actor), James Gregory (actor), Whit Bissell (actor), Harry Holcombe (actor), Lee Tung Foo (actor), Robert Burton (actor), Colin Kenny (actor),

Plot: Major Ben Marco is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. He served valiantly as a captain in the Korean war and his Sergeant, Raymond Shaw, even won the Medal of Honor. Marco has a major problem however: he has a recurring nightmare, one where two members of his squad are killed by Shaw. He's put on indefinite sick leave and visits Shaw in New York. Shaw for his part has established himself well, despite the misgivings of his domineering mother, Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin. She is a red-baiter, accusing anyone who disagrees with her right-wing reactionary views of being a Communist. Raymond hates her, not only for how she's treated him but equally because of his step-father, the ineffectual U.S. Senator John Iselin, who is intent on seeking higher office. When Marco learns that others in his Korean War unit have nightmares similar to his own, he realizes that something happened to all of them in Korea and that Raymond Shaw is the focal point.

Keywords: 1950s, african-american-psychiatrist, airplane, alaska, ambush, army, arrest, assassin, assassination, bad-mother
Genres: Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: When you've seen it all, you'll swear there's never been anything like it! Once unbelievable. Now unthinkable. The chilling classic returns [rerelease] If you come in five minutes after this picture begins, you won't know what it's all about! When you've seen it all, you'll swear there's never been anything like it!

Quotes:

Raymond Shaw: Twelve days of Christmas! One day of Christmas is loathsome enough!

[a nightmare switches between a ladies' garden club and a Soviet/Chinese military hospital]::Chairlady: You will notice that I have told them they may smoke. I've allowed my people to have a little fun in the selection of bizarre tobacco substitutes... Are you enjoying your cigarette, Ed?::Ed Movole: Yes ma'am.::Dr. Yen Lo: Yak dung!... hope tastes good - like a cigarette should!

Marco: Intelligence officer. Stupidity officer is more like it. Pentagon wants to open a Stupidity Division, they know who they can get to lead it.

Raymond Shaw: My dear girl, have you ever noticed that the human race is divided into two distinct and irreconcilable groups: those that walk into rooms and automatically turn television sets on, and those that walk into rooms and automatically turn them off. The trouble is that they end up marrying each other.

[a general greets Medal of Honor winner Staff Sgt. Raymond Shaw on his return to the U.S]::General: Congratulations, son. How do you feel?::Raymond Shaw: Like Captain Idiot in Astounding Science comics.

Raymond Shaw: It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

Dr. Yen Lo: His brain has not only been washed, as they say... It has been dry cleaned.

[Shaw has been conditioned to obey when seeing the queen of diamonds; Marco has brought a special deck of all queens of diamonds]::Raymond Shaw: They can make me do anything, Ben, can't they? Anything.::Bennett Marco: We'll see, kid. We'll see what they can do and we'll see what we can do. So the red queen is our baby. Well, take a look at this, kid... [fans deck and keeps holding up the cards] 52 of them! Take a good look at 'em, Raymond, look at 'em, and while you're looking, listen. This is me, Marco, talking. 52 red queens and me are telling you... you know what we're telling you? It's over! The links, the beautifully conditioned links are smashed. They're smashed as of now because we say so, because we say they are to be smashed. We're busting up the joint, we're tearing out all the wires. We're busting it up so good all the queen's horses and all the queen's men will never put old Raymond back together again. You don't work any more! That's an order. Anybody invites you to a game of solitaire, you tell 'em sorry, buster, the ball game is over.

Mrs. Iselin: Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?

Bennett Marco: Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.