The Manchurian Candidate
“When you've seen it all, you'll swear there's never been anything like it!”
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Genres
Thriller, Drama
Studio
MC Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Manchurian Candidate performed
Budget
$2.2M
Worldwide Gross
$7.7M
Gross Profit
$5.5M
Return
3.5× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~42/58, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Thriller) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Capt./Maj. Bennett Marco
Frank Sinatra
Capt./Maj. Bennett Marco
Raymond Shaw
Laurence Harvey
Raymond Shaw
Mrs. Iselin
Angela Lansbury
Mrs. Iselin
Eugenie Rose Chaney
Janet Leigh
Eugenie Rose Chaney
Sen. John Yerkes Iselin
James Gregory
Sen. John Yerkes Iselin
Chunjin
Henry Silva
Chunjin
Jocelyn Jordan
Leslie Parrish
Jocelyn Jordan
Sen. Thomas Jordan
John McGiver
Sen. Thomas Jordan
Dr. Yen Lo
Khigh Dhiegh
Dr. Yen Lo
Cpl. Allen Melvin
James Edwards
Cpl. Allen Melvin
Col. Milt
Douglas Henderson
Col. Milt
Zilkov
Albert Paulsen
Zilkov
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