Why is it those that claim to appreciate class show so little of it?
Angela & Meryl are two of the finest actresses, and one needs not to be put down to elevate the stature of the other. I implore some of you to take the cue from what you claim to admire.
I watched this movie on tv last night. I've seen it before. I was still hoping Sinatra would take Harvey into custody right away instead of waiting 48 hrs.! It's a great movie. The cast is excellent.
One of my favorite movies of all time! It is crazy to think that the fear of brainwashing was there in the 60s, and nowadays it seems like they are creeping back into society. I just saw a documentary, Programming the Nation?, that brings up the idea of a subtle “brainwash” effect that television and the media could have. When you put it in the context of something like that happening now, it really makes you rethink what you see daily, bitly .com/oQ0ZVk.
I think Angela Lansbury was better in this role than Meryl Streep. Angela seems more cold, and devilish with how she treats her son as a robot, an unhuman experiment for her and her husbands ambitions within political power, not to mention the downgrading from his mother he went through his whole life driving him mad. While Streeps character was cold with the same ambitions, she seemed too much in-love with what she created, as the oedipal relationship seemed liver, making her just creepy.
@edwardjames50 Certainly True. Streep couldn't measure up to Lansbury regardless. But i wouldn't shut the remake out completely though. The remake had alot of modernized themes that could be related to or compared to today. Not to mention Denzel's performance was top notch! I dunno, I guess I love both versions in their own right equally. Frankenheimer is a superior director though :D
@mblizzle09 I actually thought Streep was good, and I always like Denzel; what I DIDN'T like was the updated premise. It's hard to put ourselves in the atmosphere of 1962, but the original was pretty nervy in taking shots against both the right and the left in the era of Communism. It's obvious the makers of the remake didn't have the guts to do the same with its modern parallel--radical Islam--and opted for a safe, muddled anti-corporate theme movies were doing way back in the '70's
@booker1959 Radical islam? I dont know about that, but I was mostly referring to more of its modernized Mind control theme, the fear what our leaders are planning for us, the hypnosis to separate us from true reality, and its references to the conspiracy of Microchips in soldiers and/or ppl. Though i'm not here to wave a conspiracy flag because its just a movie, but It does sort of feel like something LIKE it is going on today. The '62 ver. def had the premise! But the remake held strong also.
@llenllenllenl I think you are right that something was delayed related to this movie because of the assassination, however the film was released in 1962, and JFK was shot in November of '63.
Why didn't Angela Lansbury win the Oscar for the Best Supporting Actress of 1962? Because Patty Duke was awarded for "The Miracle Worker". It's frustrating when two great performances are given in the same year, when, at other times, the competition is relatively weak.
A little peek into the psyches of Hilary and Michele O. I wonder if they know just how many people see them as they are. This time is like Hitler's Final Solution. Even though they know they will brought down, they are reeking as much havoc as possible before it happens.
In any other year, Lansbury would have easily won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. But in 1962, the surprise winner was the 16 years old Patty Duck for her phenomenal performance in "The Miracle Worker". That's the way the Oscar crumbles.
Angela Lansbury should have won the Oscar, hands down. I mean look at her face from 0:50 to 1:27: determined, evil, merciless demon who has an orgasm of power. It's just brilliant. She's the definition of supporting actress. Patty Duke was unbelievable too in The Miracle Worker, but the category is Best SUPPORTING Actress. Go Angela!
Ditto. - I dread the day. If only Frankenheimer had been able to use all the details of her character from Condon's book Angie would have had the guts and the ability to go all the way - too much for 1964 though. Still stunning - brava!
The flat out best commentary EVER in a DVD is by the director of this baby: don't miss it. Most commentaries are really a waste of an hour but not this one. The damned thing is almost as good as the movie itself.
There is no DOUBT about the fact that this was one of Lansbury's greatest ever roles, one of her most brilliant performances! (:-o) This scene is RIVETING! Brava, Angela!!!
JFK was shot through the head a year later, RFK was killed by what people think was a programmed assassin, Rosey Grier and Rafer Johnson couldn't wrestle the gun from his hand and he kept writing "RFK Must Die, RFK must be assassinated" over and over in a notebook...
Today, April Fool's Day 2010, Barry Soetoro will be making a speech here in Portland,ME.. I told myself - no answering the phone... Never know if one of those times in detention at school we drank the bad Kool-Aid and MK-Ultra was introduced...:)))
I just saw this movie recently for the first time. Absolutely awesome! I never would have pictured Angela Lansbury as such an evil monster! Wonderful performance. Edge-of-your seat flick!
This woman won two Tony awards for best actress in a MUSICAL! She has extraordinary range as an actress; can and does do it all. Still working on stage in Little Night Music. Saw her a few months ago in the Noel Coward play, Blithe Spirit. 84 and amazing!
Banned ? Rubbish ! Sinatra, who had purchased the rights to the film (which had failed when released in 1962) simply decided to remove it from circulation until 1987..
I'm not saying you're making things up but Lucille Ball would be the oddest choice in the history of film-making, although it's true that Doris Day was asked to play Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. I believe there is a hard edge to Ball and she could have pulled it off, but there's no way she would have wanted to, I think, and no way the public would have bought America's comedy sweetheart in the part.
@brekinridge1 Frank and Lucy were friends, and maybe the oddball casting would have drummed up some publicity. But as superb as Ball was in her niche, I don't think she would have been as credible as Lansbury. BTW, Lansbury later got the plum "Murder, She Wrote" when it was turned down by someone by the name of Doris Day.
I know. You grow up with her as the kindly Mrs. Potts as a kid and then you see this and her making incestuous hints toward her son and spouting anti-Commie propaganda and your heart stops and your blood runs cold. Alternately, you see Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe on LAW AND ORDER and you can't wrap your mind around the fact that he's Lumiere in the same film.
Quite fascinating. It turns out "The Manchuriian Candidate" was based on real CIA and US military intelligence mind control programs.
If you have any interest in the possibility that "The Manchurian Candidate" might actually be something more than mere fiction, I highly recommend watching the film "Evidence of Revision" (Parts 4 and 5), which can be seen on YouTube.
I saw this movie for the first time last week, and the second last scene where the assasination atempt happens, it was mind blowing. I was impressed, very impressed.
I see what you mean... I just remember her doing a good Cockney accent in Gaslight, and she was English in Picture of Dorian Gray, so I always imagine her "putting on" an American accent. The truth is, she can probably do both English and American with equal skill. What a woman!
It's so weird that the nice lady from Murder She Wrote played such a cold hearted bitch in this movie. What a fantastic actress. Sweet and grandmotherly one moment, and evil the next.
I was born 22 years after this film was made, but, in my opinion, it's one of the best ever.
Not only that, but Angela Lansbury's performance continues to haunt me. She is surely one of the finest actresses still living, and it will be a sad day for the world when she passes.
What a powerful scene!!! I am extremely conservative, but I have always loved this film. The conceit, in case you haven't seen it, is that the Far Right in America is really a concoction of the Communists... Brilliant idea! Angela Lansbury is downright scary as the wife of the Macarthy-like senator-- and the top Soviet agent in America. The climax is stunning..... Required Viewing.
In real life iwas a manchurian Candidate I was part of the CIA'S MKUltra brainwashing program inmontreallate 50's it destroyed my life I just put up the first part of my video it is called Ravenscrag in the search area
If anyone ever doubted Angela Lansbury's acting ability, all they need do it watch this scene. She should have earned an Oscar for her role in this movie.
All these whackjobs making crazy comparisons to modern-day politicians! Give Angela Lansbury her due: she did one hell of a job portraying a totally fictional character here. Booyah.
Creepy, especially in light of the past eight years and the years to come. We are totally powerless within our own police state, and if you don't realize this now you will, oh, yes, you will. The banks were bailed out and won't even tell us what they're doing with our money! Clinton/Bush/Obama, it makes no difference.
Anyone who has taken the time to see the movie in its entirety whill see that the striking resemblance is with Barbara Bush, Sr., not Hillary Clinton. Even the pearls are identical. She pushed her husband like she pushed her sons. She was the dynasty builder that was determined to outdo the Kennedys. Has anyone read a book on Mrs. Bush and the way she raised her sons? The parallels are truly frightening. Meanwhile her son, George W. is not less a puppet than the Lawrence Harvey character.
there' little of hitchens i don't agree with; his stance on cuba...that's why i don't consider him to be a genius...we owe him so much we can't appreciate because it's too inmense to our eyes...i google and clusty him almost every day...long live little rascal chris...
"Something of McCain's own reputation for honesty and honor is now involved in keeping Sen. Graham's implied promise. If it is not kept, then why should the press and the networks continue to cover a candidate who could, for all we know, be Angela Lansbury?"
oh the irony! I just saw your other videos and Hitchen's choice to link your video to the incompetence (or ignorance or whatever) of Palin is hilarious! Touche Hitchens!!
Hitchens is the quintisential British agent; playing left/right, keeping america inside the British geopolitical orbit, as the "hammer" against rogue nation states.
I think she didn't take this role because it was a little too close for comfort. Remember she'd already been accused of being a communist back during I Love Lucy.
i love Angela Lansbury and i agree she should have won the Oscar for it, but like her two prior nominations in "Gaslight" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" she lost again, but their is no denying this is a great performance, one of her best and a equally great film.
god, this will forever be one of by oscar dilemma's. patty duke won over her for phenomenally playing helen keller in 'the miracle worker', but lansbury's performance in this movie is just haunting. i mean, look at those eyes, that alone got her the nomination. i think i would've eventually voted for her, she was terrific
Have you seen the film? It's the trigger that puts the would-be assassin into his trance. It is also mentioned that Lansbury's character is supposed to physically resemble the Queen
Why is it those that claim to appreciate class show so little of it?
Angela & Meryl are two of the finest actresses, and one needs not to be put down to elevate the stature of the other. I implore some of you to take the cue from what you claim to admire.
MrSnikners 1 week ago
One of the best female performances ever. She is light - years ahead of the over - acting Streep!
65wiseman 3 weeks ago
It doesn't seem like it, but she's a whole 3 (three) years older than Laurence Harvey.
Telstar62a 4 weeks ago
this woman makes streep look like an amature what a great capacity for evil in such a good woman
TheDrYes 1 month ago
Where's the chilling kiss that ends the scene?
edwardjames50 1 month ago
What a superb film this is. Saw it twice during a re-release period. Lansbury was haunting.
Weirdfilms33 1 month ago
I have to admit: She's very good with the English accent.
Fingalful 2 months ago
I watched this movie on tv last night. I've seen it before. I was still hoping Sinatra would take Harvey into custody right away instead of waiting 48 hrs.! It's a great movie. The cast is excellent.
rmtmiller 4 months ago
One of my favorite movies of all time! It is crazy to think that the fear of brainwashing was there in the 60s, and nowadays it seems like they are creeping back into society. I just saw a documentary, Programming the Nation?, that brings up the idea of a subtle “brainwash” effect that television and the media could have. When you put it in the context of something like that happening now, it really makes you rethink what you see daily, bitly .com/oQ0ZVk.
BlakesleeJ 5 months ago
IS THAT PAUL MCCARTNEY?
Wentfradump 5 months ago
@Wentfradump
haha! funny.
16JAM77 2 months ago
@Wentfradump ~ Asshole.
edwardjames50 1 month ago
I think Angela Lansbury was better in this role than Meryl Streep. Angela seems more cold, and devilish with how she treats her son as a robot, an unhuman experiment for her and her husbands ambitions within political power, not to mention the downgrading from his mother he went through his whole life driving him mad. While Streeps character was cold with the same ambitions, she seemed too much in-love with what she created, as the oedipal relationship seemed liver, making her just creepy.
mblizzle09 6 months ago
@mblizzle09 ~ Remaking this movie was ill-conceived and foolish, and even the great Streep can't touch Lansbury as Mrs. Iselin.
edwardjames50 1 month ago
@edwardjames50 Certainly True. Streep couldn't measure up to Lansbury regardless. But i wouldn't shut the remake out completely though. The remake had alot of modernized themes that could be related to or compared to today. Not to mention Denzel's performance was top notch! I dunno, I guess I love both versions in their own right equally. Frankenheimer is a superior director though :D
mblizzle09 1 month ago
@mblizzle09 I actually thought Streep was good, and I always like Denzel; what I DIDN'T like was the updated premise. It's hard to put ourselves in the atmosphere of 1962, but the original was pretty nervy in taking shots against both the right and the left in the era of Communism. It's obvious the makers of the remake didn't have the guts to do the same with its modern parallel--radical Islam--and opted for a safe, muddled anti-corporate theme movies were doing way back in the '70's
booker1959 1 month ago
@booker1959 Radical islam? I dont know about that, but I was mostly referring to more of its modernized Mind control theme, the fear what our leaders are planning for us, the hypnosis to separate us from true reality, and its references to the conspiracy of Microchips in soldiers and/or ppl. Though i'm not here to wave a conspiracy flag because its just a movie, but It does sort of feel like something LIKE it is going on today. The '62 ver. def had the premise! But the remake held strong also.
mblizzle09 1 month ago
How Angela didn't win for this performance is beyond me....
Oldiesbuff925 8 months ago
@Oldiesbuff925 Blame Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker.
GallifreyExile 7 months ago
@GallifreyExile ~ No, blame the voters. Actually, this illustrates why acting awards are an absurd concept.
edwardjames50 1 month ago
Ironically, This was John F. Kennedy's favorite movie, and it was released a year before he was assassinated himself.
SecretService80 8 months ago
@SecretService80 I believe you're incorrect. In fact, its release was delayed because of JFK's asassination.
llenllenllenl 8 months ago
@llenllenllenl I think you are right that something was delayed related to this movie because of the assassination, however the film was released in 1962, and JFK was shot in November of '63.
SecretService80 8 months ago
That was one evil woman...determined too.
CitySkin09 9 months ago
Why didn't Angela Lansbury win the Oscar for the Best Supporting Actress of 1962? Because Patty Duke was awarded for "The Miracle Worker". It's frustrating when two great performances are given in the same year, when, at other times, the competition is relatively weak.
jckfmsincty 10 months ago
A little peek into the psyches of Hilary and Michele O. I wonder if they know just how many people see them as they are. This time is like Hitler's Final Solution. Even though they know they will brought down, they are reeking as much havoc as possible before it happens.
MrJoeyBoombotz 1 year ago
@MrJoeyBoombotz
You are an idiot!
theworldwillknowme 1 year ago
@MrJoeyBoombotz Hitler was a figure head my friend.
He was poor bastrad with charisma... Huashofer, Horbiguer, Roserberg, Drexler, etc.
The people behind the leader, even with Mussolini, Coudrenaeu and Franco... they are the ones who matters.
das81 11 months ago
@CrazyBoutThe60s FUCK OFF SCUM!
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19GirlBad 1 year ago
murder, she plotted in a cold and calculated fashion
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@LoverOfEverythingOld FUCK OFF YOU TART!
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@ThePSYCHOChannel FUCK YOU THE ORIGINAL IS BETTER BECAUSE WITH MORE TENSE AND DRAMA. REMAKE SHIT AND HAS NO FEELINGS!
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LoverOfEverythingOld 1 year ago
WHAT A PSYCHOTIC BITCH!!!..LOL
SHE SHOULD'VE WON AN OSCAR FOR HER PERFORMANCE SHE'S BRILLIANT!
ThePSYCHOChannel 1 year ago
i really wana c this film so band not the fucking remake.
19GirlBad 1 year ago
@19GirlBad
THE FUCKING REMAKE IS ACTUALLY BETTER THAN THIS!!..LOL
ThePSYCHOChannel 1 year ago
Excellent scene from a great movie! The only thing missing is that kiss...
brian4dotcom 1 year ago
Conspiracy theory she wrote!
intheTea04 1 year ago
My all time favorite supporting actress performance.
wowbobwow37 1 year ago
In any other year, Lansbury would have easily won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. But in 1962, the surprise winner was the 16 years old Patty Duck for her phenomenal performance in "The Miracle Worker". That's the way the Oscar crumbles.
jckfmsincty 1 year ago
she was so wicked its hard to believe this is the same woman who played murder she wrote.... she deserved that oscar
sanyo51 1 year ago
Angela Lansbury should have won the Oscar, hands down. I mean look at her face from 0:50 to 1:27: determined, evil, merciless demon who has an orgasm of power. It's just brilliant. She's the definition of supporting actress. Patty Duke was unbelievable too in The Miracle Worker, but the category is Best SUPPORTING Actress. Go Angela!
dinasztie 1 year ago
I came here cause of aaron
thegr8pulido 1 year ago
@voote42 THE greatest performance. Period.
Merkin4pres64 1 year ago
Sort of an interesting side note, Angela's father Edgar was really a Communist politician, though he died when she was ten.
I sort of wonder if that affected her feelings for this role in any way.
WillScarlet16 1 year ago
Ms. Lansbury convinced me she had ice cubes for blood.
gotch09 1 year ago
the remake sucks !!!!
vmackey12 1 year ago
One crazy bitch :)
hullothereyall 1 year ago
@Merkin4pres64
Ditto. - I dread the day. If only Frankenheimer had been able to use all the details of her character from Condon's book Angie would have had the guts and the ability to go all the way - too much for 1964 though. Still stunning - brava!
denchfan1 1 year ago
@denchfan1 Yes, it was too much for 1964 and yet that too little had such a great impact because of Ms. Lansbury. She was a wicked, wicked woman.
citizenlen 1 year ago
Oscar worthy all the way!
BeckEis 1 year ago
The flat out best commentary EVER in a DVD is by the director of this baby: don't miss it. Most commentaries are really a waste of an hour but not this one. The damned thing is almost as good as the movie itself.
doctornoooo 1 year ago
Angela Lansbury, please don't ever die.
Merkin4pres64 1 year ago 2
There is no DOUBT about the fact that this was one of Lansbury's greatest ever roles, one of her most brilliant performances! (:-o) This scene is RIVETING! Brava, Angela!!!
Noshirm 1 year ago
This is great--but you didn't finish the scene! The most disturbing part comes right after this!
loge10 1 year ago
This movie was on a UK movie channel again last night. Angela Lansbury is really scary as the mother from hell.
bigcat178 1 year ago
JFK was shot through the head a year later, RFK was killed by what people think was a programmed assassin, Rosey Grier and Rafer Johnson couldn't wrestle the gun from his hand and he kept writing "RFK Must Die, RFK must be assassinated" over and over in a notebook...
SecretService80 1 year ago
Today, April Fool's Day 2010, Barry Soetoro will be making a speech here in Portland,ME.. I told myself - no answering the phone... Never know if one of those times in detention at school we drank the bad Kool-Aid and MK-Ultra was introduced...:)))
bumcheek7 1 year ago
I just saw this movie recently for the first time. Absolutely awesome! I never would have pictured Angela Lansbury as such an evil monster! Wonderful performance. Edge-of-your seat flick!
atlmuscleman 2 years ago
I'm yet to see this movie. What's with the giant deflated card? What did she use it for? I know it has something to do with solitaire...
ShiniRyuk 2 years ago
She really should have won Best Supporting Actress.
who3697cares 2 years ago 2
Uh, no. Which is why she didn't.
ItBrandonSilver 1 year ago
This woman won two Tony awards for best actress in a MUSICAL! She has extraordinary range as an actress; can and does do it all. Still working on stage in Little Night Music. Saw her a few months ago in the Noel Coward play, Blithe Spirit. 84 and amazing!
ecgiuliani 2 years ago 5
@ecgiuliani Ms. Lansbury won a record 5 Tony Awards (4 for musical, one for play). Only Julie Harris has won 5 Tonys awards before.
picturefan2009 2 years ago
The Lady Macbeth of the Cold War.
vivienmerchant 2 years ago 14
You cut it off before the infamous kiss.
rebeccatrishel 2 years ago
Banned ? Rubbish ! Sinatra, who had purchased the rights to the film (which had failed when released in 1962) simply decided to remove it from circulation until 1987..
Baskerville22 2 years ago
Frank Sinatra wanted Lucille Ball for the role but changed his mind when he saw Angela lansbury in another film that John Frankenheimer directed.
hamtrak 2 years ago
I'm not saying you're making things up but Lucille Ball would be the oddest choice in the history of film-making, although it's true that Doris Day was asked to play Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. I believe there is a hard edge to Ball and she could have pulled it off, but there's no way she would have wanted to, I think, and no way the public would have bought America's comedy sweetheart in the part.
defundthewar 2 years ago
@defundthewar it's true, frank wanted lucy; perhaps not a good choice but maybe frank wasn't the best judge...?
brekinridge1 1 year ago
@brekinridge1 Frank and Lucy were friends, and maybe the oddball casting would have drummed up some publicity. But as superb as Ball was in her niche, I don't think she would have been as credible as Lansbury. BTW, Lansbury later got the plum "Murder, She Wrote" when it was turned down by someone by the name of Doris Day.
defundthewar 1 year ago
Angela gives the most chilling and impressive supporting performance ever.
dinasztie 2 years ago 8
Damn straight. Stange to think that this is Mrs. Potts from Beauty and The Beast!
QuatermassMan 2 years ago
I know. You grow up with her as the kindly Mrs. Potts as a kid and then you see this and her making incestuous hints toward her son and spouting anti-Commie propaganda and your heart stops and your blood runs cold. Alternately, you see Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe on LAW AND ORDER and you can't wrap your mind around the fact that he's Lumiere in the same film.
reginaroadie 2 years ago
Quite fascinating. It turns out "The Manchuriian Candidate" was based on real CIA and US military intelligence mind control programs.
If you have any interest in the possibility that "The Manchurian Candidate" might actually be something more than mere fiction, I highly recommend watching the film "Evidence of Revision" (Parts 4 and 5), which can be seen on YouTube.
WINGTV9 2 years ago
sinatra also played a presidential assassin in Suddenly!
sunvana 2 years ago
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Right-Wing cold war pablum puke.
dallaskenn 2 years ago
I saw this movie for the first time last week, and the second last scene where the assasination atempt happens, it was mind blowing. I was impressed, very impressed.
nukenate 2 years ago 2
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"to sweep us into the white house with powers to make martial law seem like anarchy"
Silly woman. What she needed was a telegenic young African American fellow who was indoctrinated from birth.
All praise our Dear Leader. His Obamaness.
ballantrae101 2 years ago
And born of a virgin.
meanjean29 2 years ago
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Oedipal-Leroy right-wing cold war Whittaker Chamberesque pablum puke theatre of the absurd
dallaskenn 2 years ago
Angela Lansbury reminds me of Sabine Schmitz who guest stars on the BBC program called Top Gear, she is a German race car driver.
Angela Lansbury does a brilliaint English accent in this film.
HyperColours 2 years ago
Angela Lansbury is English
CharleyNathan 2 years ago 3
I thought she left England when she was a child with her mother? I thought a child would lose an accent very quickly?
HyperColours 2 years ago
I see what you mean... I just remember her doing a good Cockney accent in Gaslight, and she was English in Picture of Dorian Gray, so I always imagine her "putting on" an American accent. The truth is, she can probably do both English and American with equal skill. What a woman!
CharleyNathan 2 years ago
It's so weird that the nice lady from Murder She Wrote played such a cold hearted bitch in this movie. What a fantastic actress. Sweet and grandmotherly one moment, and evil the next.
S0vereignty 2 years ago 7
I was born 22 years after this film was made, but, in my opinion, it's one of the best ever.
Not only that, but Angela Lansbury's performance continues to haunt me. She is surely one of the finest actresses still living, and it will be a sad day for the world when she passes.
oxfordruse 2 years ago 3
if u like this film,u should listen to hte album Operation:Mindcrime by Queensryche :)
MaRaX93 2 years ago
Great album
AgentAJD 2 years ago
Angela was nominated for an Oscar for this performance, but she didn't get it. Does she ever get an "Honorary Oscar"? Does any body know?
captatnonmuscas 2 years ago
mrs lansbury is so good in this film ( ather films to :D) I love her
simoontje1000 3 years ago 4
What a powerful scene!!! I am extremely conservative, but I have always loved this film. The conceit, in case you haven't seen it, is that the Far Right in America is really a concoction of the Communists... Brilliant idea! Angela Lansbury is downright scary as the wife of the Macarthy-like senator-- and the top Soviet agent in America. The climax is stunning..... Required Viewing.
surfstrat59 3 years ago 4
laughing at the comments...maybe it's John McCain's mom - didn't people insinuate that McCain was brainwashed in Vietnam?
luridplanet 3 years ago
In real life iwas a manchurian Candidate I was part of the CIA'S MKUltra brainwashing program inmontreallate 50's it destroyed my life I just put up the first part of my video it is called Ravenscrag in the search area
photo986 3 years ago
Great movie.
virtualstrangers60 3 years ago
If anyone ever doubted Angela Lansbury's acting ability, all they need do it watch this scene. She should have earned an Oscar for her role in this movie.
budooo 3 years ago 20
@budooo
Yes she should have. It's far nastier and scarier than Meryl STreep in the later version
MuscleDaddyCMH 6 months ago
All these whackjobs making crazy comparisons to modern-day politicians! Give Angela Lansbury her due: she did one hell of a job portraying a totally fictional character here. Booyah.
normanthepig 3 years ago 7
Angela Lansbury didn't win an Oscar for this, can you believe that?!
And if you ask me, she's playing Barbara Bush, not Hillary Clinton.
lol365 3 years ago
awesome! i love Angela Landsbury so much! particularly her created character in "MURDER SHE WROTE' and other films.
61372461 3 years ago 11
Creepy, especially in light of the past eight years and the years to come. We are totally powerless within our own police state, and if you don't realize this now you will, oh, yes, you will. The banks were bailed out and won't even tell us what they're doing with our money! Clinton/Bush/Obama, it makes no difference.
billyguns2 3 years ago
Anyone who has taken the time to see the movie in its entirety whill see that the striking resemblance is with Barbara Bush, Sr., not Hillary Clinton. Even the pearls are identical. She pushed her husband like she pushed her sons. She was the dynasty builder that was determined to outdo the Kennedys. Has anyone read a book on Mrs. Bush and the way she raised her sons? The parallels are truly frightening. Meanwhile her son, George W. is not less a puppet than the Lawrence Harvey character.
eastsunrise 3 years ago
Oh my God this could totally be Hillary Clinton!
GoodbyeToBlueberyPie 3 years ago
I cant believe thats Angela wow
operastar1994 3 years ago 2
She had a dream. . .
fkd1963 3 years ago 2
Angela Lansbury reminds me of Hillary Clinton in this role.
jephsteph 3 years ago
there' little of hitchens i don't agree with; his stance on cuba...that's why i don't consider him to be a genius...we owe him so much we can't appreciate because it's too inmense to our eyes...i google and clusty him almost every day...long live little rascal chris...
gdscks 3 years ago
as always...Hitchens scores unanswered...this is fucking brilliant!
bsport48 3 years ago
hitchens FTW
kmish213 3 years ago 2
I love seeing well-accomplished writers with a good knowledge in film.
Well done Hitchens!
traysrh 3 years ago 3
"Something of McCain's own reputation for honesty and honor is now involved in keeping Sen. Graham's implied promise. If it is not kept, then why should the press and the networks continue to cover a candidate who could, for all we know, be Angela Lansbury?"
- Hitchens article on Slate 10/21/2008
And Angela Lansbury was a link to this video.
EdCenter 3 years ago 2
oh the irony! I just saw your other videos and Hitchen's choice to link your video to the incompetence (or ignorance or whatever) of Palin is hilarious! Touche Hitchens!!
EdCenter 3 years ago 2
Hitchens is the quintisential British agent; playing left/right, keeping america inside the British geopolitical orbit, as the "hammer" against rogue nation states.
OBAMA is the real Manchurian Candidate!!!!
atradition 3 years ago
Why all the Hitchens mentions? Did he mention this scene recently?
EditoratIP 3 years ago
Hitchens's article in Slate mentions this clip in reference to Palin.
trippingtherails 3 years ago
christopher hitchens rules.
generis85 3 years ago 2
har har hitchens
nsanidy 3 years ago
lol hitchens
hypothetisch 3 years ago 2
Angela Lansbury hawt
rmeddy1 3 years ago
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hillary is a lesbian.
ccfor30 3 years ago
im a lesbian too so its okay i have gaydar. it takes one to know one. wait. no it doesnt.
ccfor30 3 years ago
That is quite possibly one of the greatest and most bone-chilling performances of all time.
deltavoyage 3 years ago 2
damn imgine if that shit was not an act and it was real, waht if it is real yea look at that dont even blink
mear559 3 years ago
damn that bitch dont blink for shit, hypnotize your ass hahaha
mear559 3 years ago
It's Sarah Palin!
homersleepnow 3 years ago 3
It's Sarah Palin!
homersleepnow 3 years ago
Hillary !!! Hillary !!! Hillary !!!
goldcoastlawyer 3 years ago
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Messenger33 (3 months ago) "Holy shit! It's Hillary!"
Yes it is. Dead ringer.
Oh my, I also just saw the Queen of Diamonds!
"Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."
FeepCalling 3 years ago
I think she didn't take this role because it was a little too close for comfort. Remember she'd already been accused of being a communist back during I Love Lucy.
adriantrench 3 years ago
i love Angela Lansbury and i agree she should have won the Oscar for it, but like her two prior nominations in "Gaslight" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" she lost again, but their is no denying this is a great performance, one of her best and a equally great film.
oldiesguy8 3 years ago 5
Holy shit! It's Hillary!
Messenger33 3 years ago 4
LoL. I was thinking the same thing.
Good film, though.
Chamdar7000 3 years ago 2
this happens to be near the top of my netflix queue.
coincidence?
highway234 3 years ago
the netflix envelope for this movie is sitting next to me right now
adriantrench 3 years ago
Yea, I came to look at this once Hillary made her RFK assassination comment earlier today.
Except for the cigarette Hillary could have learned from this performance.
irishpirate1 3 years ago
Hillary Clinton?
reyesauteur 3 years ago
She is channeling her inner Hillary.
undrdwg 3 years ago 2
LMFAO
GiveMeMyLisbonTreaty 3 years ago
Great performance by Lansbury.......this is how to act.........
rjddurhamnc 3 years ago
she should have gotten an oscar, this is brilliant.
garconfrancais01 3 years ago 8
god, this will forever be one of by oscar dilemma's. patty duke won over her for phenomenally playing helen keller in 'the miracle worker', but lansbury's performance in this movie is just haunting. i mean, look at those eyes, that alone got her the nomination. i think i would've eventually voted for her, she was terrific
vozas 3 years ago 2
The Queen card is a bit too obvious for my tastes. As if we didn't understand that parallel without it.
Craveon 4 years ago
But the Queen card was the psychological trigger that puts the would-be assassin into his trance.
hatchbx 4 years ago
Have you seen the film? It's the trigger that puts the would-be assassin into his trance. It is also mentioned that Lansbury's character is supposed to physically resemble the Queen
billydeeuk 3 years ago
You missed that last bit, That memorable kiss she gives to Laurence Harvey at the end of this scene.
cha5 4 years ago
Her entire performance in this film is a Master Class ... She is magnificent !
midas45 4 years ago 4
Never has there been a more brilliantly delivered monologue on film.
auntsbr 4 years ago 2
meryl streep did a good job in it though
ffmcracdcftw 4 years ago
Wow, this version was MUCH better than the remake with Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington.
sndblstr 4 years ago 2
Does this remind you of Hillary?
EditoratIP 4 years ago
the resemblance is uncanny
gldmj55 4 years ago
@EditoratIP No.
JimboUSofA 1 year ago