Classic Films at the Ferg: The Manchurian Candidate (1964)

Join us each month as we screen a classic and noteworthy title from film history.

This month we will be showing John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate from 1964, starring Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, and Laurence Harvey

After Raymond Shaw returns from the Korean War as a decorated hero, the surviving members of his platoon can't really remember the actions with which he is credited, having done in order to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Two of the soldiers start having recurring nightmares, and one of them decides to investigate Raymond's current activities. What dark and sinister secrets are being withheld by or from the Government and the Army?