The Manchurian Candidate
When you've seen it all, you'll swear there's never been anything like it!
Country
Production
Budget
$2 200 000
Box office
$2 757 256
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
George Axelrod, John Frankenheimer, Howard W. Koch
Camera operator
Lionel Lindon
Composer
David Amram
Artist
Richard Sylbert, Philip M. Jefferies
Audition
Editing
Short description
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
What's left behind the scenes
- According to his own claims, Frank Sinatra performed any scene best on the very first take. The film's screenwriter, director, and producer John Frankenheimer (1930-2002) also preferred using the first take; consequently, nearly all of Sinatra's key scenes are first takes, except for a few where the first take was ruined by purely technical issues.
- While filming a fight scene with the character played by Henry Silva, Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) broke the pinky finger of his right hand. He was unable to treat the injury properly due to the filming schedule, causing the fracture to heal incorrectly, which resulted in discomfort for the actor for the rest of his life.
- Playing the psychiatrist, Joe Adams (1922-2018) became the first Black actor to play a character whose race was not specifically mentioned in the script.
- When plans were being made to film the movie based on the novel of the same name (1959), Arthur Krim—then president of United Artists and an influential figure in the U.S. Democratic Party—was very concerned about the delicate nature of the plot. Sinatra's friend, President J. F. Kennedy (1917-1963), personally called Krim to assure him that he had no objections.
- The murder scene was filmed for 4 days at Madison Square Garden in New York and at a sports facility in Los Angeles, and then it was assembled.
- Normally, a shooting day begins before dawn, but the shooting day for this film started at 11 a.m. at the request of Frank Sinatra, who didn't go to bed until 5 a.m.
- Typically, a filming day begins before dawn, but the filming days for this movie began at 11:00 AM at the request of Frank Sinatra, who didn't go to bed until 5:00 AM.
- The scene in which Laurence Harvey (1928-1973)'s character jumps into the lake in Central Park was filmed on February 12th, the coldest day in the last 30 years. Before filming, the ice on the lake had to be broken with a bulldozer rented specifically for that purpose.
- The brainwashing scene was filmed entirely three times on three sets constructed in such a way that the camera could make a full rotation around its axis on each of them. The footage from all three cameras was then edited together.
- When they were preparing to film the movie based on the novel of the same name (1959), Arthur Krim, then president of United Artists and an influential figure in the Democratic Party of the United States, was very concerned about the sensitive nature of the plot. Frank Sinatra's friend, President J.F. Kennedy (1917-1963), specifically called Krim to assure him that there would be no objections.
- The scene in which Laurence Harvey's (1928-1973) character jumps into the lake in Central Park was filmed on February 12th, the coldest day in 30 years. Before filming, a rented bulldozer had to be used to break the ice on the lake specifically for this purpose.
- Joe Adams (1922-2018), who played the psychiatrist, was the first African American actor to appear in a role where the character's race was not specifically mentioned in the script.
- The film's plot was considered so politically sensitive that it was censored and outright banned in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc, namely Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, as well as in neutral Finland and Sweden. The film was only released in cinemas in these countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1993.
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