![]() ![]() The film, based on the 1959 novel by Richard Condon and directed by John Frankenheimer, gained an almost cult-like following. The plot is about a Chinese conspiracy to " brainwash" an American POW into becoming an unwitting assassin of a candidate for President of the United States and thus allowing a villain to become President. (As is now well known, no one can be hypnotized against his will, and hypnosis cannot make anyone violate his conscience.) ![]() The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 Hollywood film based on the idea that hypnosis could produce a man involuntarily programmed to commit murder, an idea popular at the time but now thoroughly discredited.
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