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Title: SINATRA'S SECOND FILM ABOUT KILLING A PRESIDENT
Review: To hype the 2004 Denzel Washington remake, a DVD special edition of 1962's THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE was reissued. There's a brief interview with Angela Lansbury, a commentary by John Frankenheimer and a 1988 reunion of the principals. Still potent, this ferocious political satire(?) about a brainwashed assassin was allegedly withheld from distribution for 25 years by star Frank Sinatra after the killing of JFK. Strangely, Sinatra also starred in SUDDENLY, another film about the killing of a president. Even stranger, it has been reported (by Kitty Kelly) that Lee Harvey Oswald watched it a few day before the murder of JFK -- not that Oswald was the actual, lone killer of the President.
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