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...recorded--andwhether Shaw might not be the glorious hero that everyone thinks he is. When Shaw takes the national stage as a surefire candidate for vice president--under the thumb of his controversial mother, Senator...
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A US Army hero returns to New York from Korea, but has been mysteriously programmed by Communists to assassinate a presidential nominee, but when his Army buddy becomes suspicious of the goings on, he is on the trail to stop him.
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...John Frankenheimer's 1962 Manchurian Candidate is a classic political satire...that finds its own way into the material, adapted from Richard...s 1959 novel. Instead of the brainwashing Commie threat posed by the first film -- set in the...
PETER TRAVERS,
Rolling Stone
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...up against with his current remake. Frank Sinatra excels as a Korean War vet who uncovers secrets about his hero pal (Laurence Harvey). And Angela Lansbury is a marvel as Harvey's mommy dearest. The "making of" extras add to the kick.
PETER TRAVERS,
Rolling Stone
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Possessing "the most imitated, most listened to, most recognized voice of the second half of the twentieth century," according to NYC disc jockey William B Williams, who tagged him forever as 'The…
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A consistently effective scenarist, Axelrod wrote often witty and always acute examinations of American social mores that produced several superior films of the 1950s and 60s.After serving in the Army…
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He brought shudders to audiences worldwide as Jamie Gumb, the cross-dressing serial killer in "Silence of the Lambs" (1991) but the stage-trained Ted Levine has proven himself as a character player…
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An incredibly energetic, optimistic and versatile director of character-driven films, Jonathan Demme emerged from the crucible of B-moviemaking at Roger Corman's New World Pictures in the early 1970s…
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The John Frankenheimer story contains one of the great second acts of American filmmaking. The wunderkind who left his Air Force film unit and talked his way into an assistant director's job at CBS…
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A slim, wavy-haired, yet tough character actor of films and TV, often seen as cops or other authority figures, Gregory acted in summer stock in the late 1930s, hitting Broadway in "Key Largo" (1939),…
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