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From the TIME Archive
The one movie I feel should have definitely made the list (of top 3 movies, let alone 100), is Seven Samurai. Maybe this was an oversight because you didn't want more than two Kurosawa films on the list? If this was the case, I feel Seven Samurai is a better movie than Yojimbo.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Directed By: John Frankenheimer
Screenplay: Richard Condon (novel); George Axelrod (screenplay)
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
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he plot is preposterous: Brainwashed Korean War POW (Laurence Harvey) becomes a political assassin when he returns home to Momma (the divinely clutching Angela Lansbury). But who cares? The flash and conviction of Frankenheimer's filmmaking drives our commonsensical dubiousness right out of our heads, replacing it with high-energy paranoia. And sheer delight at this manic boldness.—R.S.From the TIME Archive:
The story is notable chiefly for a systematic error it makes. It tries so hard to be different that it fails to be itself
—TIME Magazine, Nov. 2, 1962 >>
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