The Manchurian Candidate
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Oct 29, 2026
Cory HazlehurstHOST
Hello, Corey.
Cory HazlehurstHOST
This week, we're talking about the Manchurian candidate.
Cory HazlehurstHOST
Give us a minute for Mark to transmit me some devilish instructions, and then the brainwashing can begin.
Cory HazlehurstHOST
Let's start with Matters of Rising.
Mark PackHOST
And so, yeah, looking forward to discussing this one.
Cory HazlehurstHOST
Yeah, and so I'd seen it once before, about a year ago.
Cory HazlehurstHOST
Yeah, it's an interesting one to do, because I feel like Manchurian Candidate is one of those phrases that has kind of entered the...
Cory HazlehurstHOST
So even if people haven't watched the film, that's still a phrase that comes up in magazine articles.
Nate CainHOST
He's also been on Newsmax discussing the Unabomber's background.
Nate CainHOST
and has been speaking recently about dissociative identity disorder, mind control research, and whether the Manchurian candidate concept was real.
Nate CainHOST
Dr. Ross, thank you so much for coming on.
Nate CainHOST
Thanks for the invitation.
7 MINS LATER
Colin A. RossGUEST
He talked on two – let's
Nate CainHOST
see, it was
Colin A. RossGUEST
– I forget how many military psychiatrists, but he talked to on military bases at conferences about the super spy, which is what he called the Manchurian candidate.
Colin A. RossGUEST
So the Manchurian candidate is fact, not fiction.
Chick McGeePANELIST
no. Arnold Stang was...
Chick McGeePANELIST
If he wasn't in the Manchurian Candidate, that's about the only Frank Sinatra movie worth a damn.
Tom GriswoldHOST
He was the man with the golden arm.
Chick McGeePANELIST
I stand corrected.
Tony MaiettaHOST
Did you know? You knew this, I'm sure, because you're a big Frankenheimer fan.
Tony MaiettaHOST
His Paranoia trilogy, it was The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, and then this film.
Tony MaiettaHOST
Did you know that? I did.
Tony MaiettaHOST
I figured you did.
Tony MaiettaHOST
He is such a forward thinking director.
Tony MaiettaHOST
He was so ahead of his time in so many ways.
Tony MaiettaHOST
Think about the Manchurian candidate.
Tony MaiettaHOST
We talked about it last year.
TomHOST
Well, that's true.
TomHOST
Yeah, and the Manchurian candidate.
TomHOST
You've got the program killer who doesn't know what he's been made into.
DanHOST
Yeah, in real life, they're on Contra, Oliver North, rogue programs run off the books.
Jamelle BouieHOST
John Frankenheimer being the famous director, I'd say responsible for a string of classic films, all of some of which we've covered on this podcast, but we'll go through a few of them.
Jamelle BouieHOST
The Birdman of Alcatraz in 1962, The Manchurian Candidate in 1962, Seven Days in May in 64, The Train in 64, Seconds in 66, Grand Prix also in 66.
Jamelle BouieHOST
Grand Prix, a movie that has a lot in common with Ronin in that it's a car movie very much.
Jamelle BouieHOST
The Iceman Cometh in 73 is another solid Frankenheimer picture.
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Jamelle BouieHOST
It just means it's a job that must be done.
John GanzHOST
Yes, with a certain grim determination.
John GanzHOST
I mean, yeah, The Manchurian – I think he found – from what I've read, his defining moment is McCarthyism.
John GanzHOST
And obviously that's in the background of The Manchurian Candidate.
ScottGUEST
I guess you could, if we're going back to John Frankenheimer, I guess I could go back to the 60s.
ScottGUEST
The Manchurian Candidate is superlative, the original.
Joseph DarlingtonHOST
There you go.
ScottGUEST
That, oh, what a terrific film that is.
Greg FitzsimmonsHOST
Let's not overstate what she did.
Mike GibbonsHOST
Okay, The Manchurian Candidate, which is a film very close to the work of our friend Tom O'Neill.
Mike GibbonsHOST
And Angela Lansbury, who's incredible in it.
Mike GibbonsHOST
Murder She Caused is really what this subtitle should be.
Colin McKayHOST
That's always gets us.
Colin McKayHOST
Dog Day Afternoon, North by Northwest, The Manchurian Candidate, Gaslight.
Colin McKayHOST
Gaslight's first.
Colin McKayHOST
Yep.
speaker_0HOST
In 2004, it was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry, and in 1998, James Brown, live at the Apollo, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which just goes to show you, even when your record label doesn't believe you, do it anyway.
speaker_0HOST
In 1962, the cinematic political thriller The Manchurian Candidate, starring Frank Sinatra, officially opened in American theaters.
speaker_0HOST
It arrived at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis and also dealt with contemporary Cold War anxieties and political paranoia, kind of like now.
speaker_0HOST
In 1963, during a session at Columbia Studios in New York City, Bob Dylan recorded the master take for his classic, The Times They Are a-Changin'.
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