River Oaks Theatre Weekend Midnight Movies: The Manchurian Candidate

Every Friday and Saturday night at 11:55pm, it’s another Midnight Movie Classic at the Landmark River Oaks Theatre.

Friday-Saturday, November 4 & 5: The Manchurian Candidate.

Communist brainwashing, war heroes who can’t remember their actions and political intrigue of the highest order come together in this suspenseful political thriller—one of the most menacing films about political paranoia ever made.

Ask Major Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) and he’ll say that Sgt. Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is a hero worthy of the Medal of Honor. But despite what he says, Marco suspects otherwise.

A bizarre, recurring nightmare gives him the uneasy feeling that Shaw is something far less heroic and far more insidious.

Is it possible that Shaw is a traitor? Can Marco convince the Army of his suspicions? How does Shaw’s power-mad mother (Angela Lansbury) figure into all this?

So many questions, so precious little time….

Adapted from the novel by Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate also stars Janet Leigh and is directed by John Frankenheimer (Seconds, Birdman of Alcatraz).

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (PG13)
2 hrs, 6 mins

RELEASE: 10/24/1962
CAST: Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra, James Gregory, Henry Silva, Laurence Harvey
DIRECTOR: John Frankenheimer