In The Manchurian Candidate an American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

Freedom Film Festival brings you a follow up to our filmic presentations last week on mind control. The Manchurian Candidate, the Hollywood movie, helps to scare the public into believing “the communists” are mastering brainwashing mind control (to help justify the CIA’s massive projects to “catch up” with the commies).

We’re watching the 1962 Frank Sinatra version of the movie, even though we are aware that there is a more recent remake, starring Denzel Washington (2004), but we’ve been kind of unhappy with remakes lately, so we’re going for the original