The Manchurian Candidate

Frank Sinatra wanted Lucille Ball for the role but changed his mind when he saw Angela lansbury in another film that John Frankenheimer directed.

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.

This movie is NOT science fiction!!! It was banned after the Kennedy assignation. Interestingly enough Kennedy approved of it!

Another strange twist in "reality" Angela Lansbury's daughter was a Manson groopy! Lansbury gave her daughter written permission to hang with the Manson family! There is strong evidence Manson like many so called serial murders was an MK Ultra slave!

Truth is stranger then fiction!

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..

Angela gives the most chilling and impressive supporting performance ever.

In the book, there are no good guys, and no bad guys really. There are only the controllers, and the controlled. The book ends differently, but parts of the dialogue in the movie are directly from the book - especially the scenes on the train.

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.

sinatra also played a presidential assassin in Suddenly!

Oedipal-Leroy right-wing cold war Whittaker Chamberesque pablum puke theatre of the absurd

Right-Wing cold war pablum puke.