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Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths: An Introduction
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Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
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An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin
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American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations
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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Manchurian Candidate (1962) in Movies
May 8, 2021
Sounds a bit like a Red Scare movie, but surprisingly apolitical: the main villain seems to be more fascist than communist, and even the Russian characters appear to have corrupted by American consumerism. Instead, the focus is more on character, and the damage done to people by their experiences in wartime. An intelligent and cynical movie, well-played for the most part, and with an astonishingly good turn from Angela Lansbury. Inevitably linked in the culture to the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers in the 1960s, but still feels remarkably un-dated.