The Manchurian Candidate (1972) is a classic political thriller directed by John Frankenheimer. It follows the story of a former Korean War POW, Raymond Shaw, who has been brainwashed into becoming a sleeper agent for a communist conspiracy. Shaw is sent on a mission to assassinate a
The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon, is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy. The Manchurian Candidate novel has twice been adapted into a feature film; the first is The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which deals with anti-communist hysteria in U.S. politics, and the second is The Manchurian Candidate (2004), which deals with corporate interference in the U.S. government.