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Stare intently at the Queen of Hearts and let these behind-the-scenes details wash over you. But the movie is significant for other reasons, too, besides its contribution to the English lexicon. Since then, whenever a new political figure has emerged from seemingly out of nowhere, a small subsection of paranoiacs has theorized that he or she was a "Manchurian candidate," secretly bent on destroying America. People who love movies and people who love conspiracy theories have common ground in The Manchurian Candidate, the 1962 Cold War satiric thriller about an American soldier brainwashed by Communists into becoming an assassin.
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