![]() “it’s old fashioned, in a way, but there’s something about it that feels super contemporary. ![]() ![]() So what does Tony Goldwyn-who currently stars in his own political thriller as President Fitzgerald Grant in the TV series Scandal-think of the film? “It always feels incredibly fresh,” explains Goldwyn in his video recommendation for the film. Kennedy’s blessing and director John Frankenheimer went for it. With political intrigue and USSR brainwashing, the studio thought the premise too incendiary to produce, but Sinatra got John F. Starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, the film follows a decorated war hero caught up in a plot to assassinate a presidential candidate. This week, actors/directors/producers Tony Goldwyn and Griffin Dunne select one of the best political thrillers of all time, The Manchurian Candidate, which you can watch streaming right now on Tribeca Shortlist. So far, we saw why actor Vincent D’Onofrio and composer Joseph Trapenese recommended A Fistful of Dollars, actor BD Wong and horror screenwriter Simon Barrett suggested the martial arts epic Hero, and actors Chris Lowell and Gary Oldman picked Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’. This article series, “Why Everyone Should See:,” is our way of bringing some of these recommendations together around a single movie. But we also go one step beyond and pick the minds of experts and insiders in the movie biz, people we call our “Shortlisters,” to check out our impressive catalogue and talk about why they love the movies we stream. This is politics, and filmmaking, the way they’re meant to be: breathless.At Tribeca Shortlist we’re dedicated to bringing you great streaming movies worth watching. But beyond the heart-racing plot and the tremendous acting (Frank Sinatra is especially good as Harvey’s old Army buddy), The Manchurian Candidate retains it status as a one-of-a-kind classic in large part because of Frankenheimer’s inventive, highly stylized direction and the film’s confident, propulsive pacing. Taken to Manchuria in northeast Red China, he is brainwashed, then released, unaware that he’s been primed to assassinate a Presidential candidate when activated back in the States by his communist “operator” - in fact, his stepmother, played with reptilian glee by Angela Lansbury. The story, from a 1959 Richard Condon novel, is mind-bending enough: the scion of an American political dynasty (Laurence Harvey) is captured during the Korean War. Sinatra suggested Lucille Ball for the role of Eleanor Iselin, but Frankenheimer, who had worked with Lansbury in All Fall Down, insisted that Sinatra watch her. A half-century old this year, John Frankenheimer’s masterpiece was the first great conspiracy film - and the movie by which all other conspiracy flicks have been, and always will be, measured. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.6 and a MetaScore of 76. ![]() ![]() There are conspiracy movies, there are political thrillers, there are films that spark entirely new cinematic genres - and then there’s The Manchurian Candidate. The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 drama with a runtime of 2 hours and 9 minutes. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh Get This Movie Find out how to watch MGM HD: The Manchurian Candidate. ![]()
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