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Pink Orange Red (with Cocteau Twins / Robin Guthrie / Elizabeth Fraser / Simon Raymonde, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde) by Cocteau Twins

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Playback

Raymond Chandler and Kathy Reichs

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Playback is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime. Stalking the...

H Is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone, #8)

Sue Grafton

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H IS FOR HUSTLER… When PI Kinsey Millhone's good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found...

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May 8, 2021

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

1962 | Classics, Drama, Thriller

7.7

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Conspiracy thriller. In the early 1960s, war hero Raymond Shaw is feted across America for saving his comrades during the war in Korea - but those comrades are troubled by strange nightmares suggesting something completely different may have happened. Shaw has been conditioned by the Communists to become the perfect assassin, something not even he is aware of, and his new operators are about to send him into action...

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.