NewMexiKen watched the original Manchurian Candidate the other evening — twice. The 1962 film with Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury holds up well to a careful watching (I hadn’t seen it since it was first run in 1962). It was made even more interesting by the second viewing with Producer/Director John Frankenheimer’s voice-over commentary.
Lansbury was 36 when she played 34-year-old Harvey’s mother in the film. For that alone she deserved the Academy Award nomination she got.