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The Manchurian Candidate
Why this pick
Like The President's Analyst, it turns Cold War power structures into nervy, stylised paranoia, but with a darker, more psychologically unsettling comic edge.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1967 1h 43m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Winter Kills
Why this pick
Its baroque conspiracy, eccentric power brokers and mordant humour preserve the pleasurable instability of a political thriller that refuses to behave solemnly.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Schaefer (James Coburn), is chosen by the US Government to act as the President’s top-secret personal psychoanalyst, from a referral by Don Masters (Godfrey Cambridge), a Central Enquiries Agency (CEA) assassin who vetted Schaefer while undergoing his own psychoanalysis. The decision to choose Schaefer is against the advice of Henry Lux (Walter Burke), the under-five-foot-six-inch director of the all-male, Federal Bureau of Regulation (FBR). ("Lux", like "J. Edgar Hoover", was once a famous make of vacuum cleaner.) Schaefer is given a home in affluent Georgetown, Washington, DC, and assigned a comfortable office connected to the White House by a secret tunnel. From this location he is to be on-call at all hours, to fit the President's hectic schedule.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Godfrey Cambridge
Don Masters, CEA Agent
Severn Darden
V.I. Kydor Kropotkin
Joan Delaney
Nan Butler
Sheldon Collins
Bing Quantrill
James Coburn
Dr. Sidney Schaefer
William Daniels
Wynn Quantrill
Martin Horsey
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