Un crime dans la tête

Titre original : The Manchurian Candidate

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Un ancien prisonnier de guerre subit un lavage de cerveau et devient malgré lui l'assassin involontaire d'une conspiration communiste internationale.Un ancien prisonnier de guerre subit un lavage de cerveau et devient malgré lui l'assassin involontaire d'une conspiration communiste internationale.Un ancien prisonnier de guerre subit un lavage de cerveau et devient malgré lui l'assassin involontaire d'une conspiration communiste internationale.

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Nommé pour 2 Oscars
- 6 victoires et 9 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Frank Sinatra broke the little finger of his right hand on the desk in the fight sequence with Henry Silva. Due to on-going filming commitments, he could not rest or bandage his hand properly, causing the injury to heal incorrectly. It caused him chronic discomfort for the rest of his life.

Gaffes
In the opening sequence, set in 1952, the bar in Korea has a US flag with 50 stars. In 1952, the US included only 48 states, and the flag had only 48 stars. In 1959, Alaska became the 49th state on January 3rd, so the flag was redesigned with 49 stars, effective July 4th, 1959. When Hawaii became the 50th state on August 21st, the 50-star flag was authorized, effective July 4th, 1960.

Citations
Bennett Marco: Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

Crédits fous
The closing credits specify, "Released thru United Artists". This uses an informal spelling of the standard "through".

Versions alternatives
The West German version was edited (ca. 4 minutes) to remove every scene with the ladies in the greenhouse. This version was also released on DVD. In 2005 the uncut version (with subtitles for the missing scenes) was shown on Arte. Only in 2020 was the complete version released on Blu-ray/DVD.

Connexions
Edited into Commercial Entertainment Product (1992)

Bandes originales
The Washington Post
(1889) (uncredited)
Music by John Philip Sousa
Played by a band in the first scene after the opening credits

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8/10

Analogue Political Interference...

Highlighting the paranoia of a nation, its relationship with communism and how that relationship was perceived to affect and influence the political system. Nowadays all you need are several thousand social media accounts, some software savvy techies and a bit of government ambition and bingo: your man is in the White House - the evidence gets tweeted every day. I wont say despotic government because all sides play the game with varying degrees of success, so it could be No.10 or the Kremlin or wherever takes your fancy - the fact is you will never know for sure just how much influence has been applied and the extent of the damage it achieved.

With that in mind the film is interesting, relevant and frightening - very frightening. Sinatra plays himself as usual, Laurence Harvey plays the multi-conditioned assassin to perfection, Angela Lansbury is superb as every sons nightmare mother and Janet Leigh adds fifteen minutes to the runtime and little else.