Central Cinema Cinesthesia presents The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

"The name John Frankenheimer became forever synonymous with heart-in-the-throat filmmaking when this quintessential sixties political thriller was released. Set in the early fifties this razor-sharp adaptation of the novel by Richard Condon concerns the decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into becoming a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy and a fellow POW who slowly uncovers the sinister plot" (Criterion).