![]() ![]() Its release date of October 24th 1962 found an America in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, that took the world to the brink of nuclear war. The movie stars Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Janet Leigh, and couldn’t have been released at a more testing time. But it’s the 1962 original film, directed by the late John Frankenheimer, that’s rightly regarded as one of the finest American thrillers in cinema history. In truth, as much as it’s internet law to slam remakes, Jonathan Demme’s 2004 take on the material – starring Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington – is worth a look. ![]() Richard Condon’s political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate, has twice been turned into a feature film.
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