Past Event
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 6 p.m.
Film Forum Coronado: Manchurian Candidate
640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, 92118
Cost: Free
The Manchurian Candidate (1962. 126 minutes): Visionary director John Frankenheimer’s jazzy, daring, delirious, and wickedly satirical political thriller. A U.S. Army sergeant (Laurence Harvey), a POW during the Korean War, is programmed to become a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy. Frank Sinatra is a fellow POW who uncovers the sinister plot. Angela Lansbury gives a bravura performance as the Machiavellian wife of a staunch anti-Communist senator. With Janet Leigh. Film Forum Coronado is held in the Winn Room at the Coronado Public Library, with a brief introduction before the film and a discussion afterward, led by Ralph DeLauro. This program is presented by the Coronado Public Library and the Coronado Island Film Festival.