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moremojo:

--- Quote from: Kd5000 on August 28, 2007, 04:02:56 pm ---Was the MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE release in 1963.
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It was actually released in 1962. I believe you're right about Sinatra suppressing the film in the wake of the Kennedy assassination the following year.

MaineWriter:

--- Quote from: moremojo on August 28, 2007, 05:01:58 pm ---It was actually released in 1962. I believe you're right about Sinatra suppressing the film in the wake of the Kennedy assassination the following year.

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This is from Wikipedia:

Hollywood rumour holds that Sinatra removed the film from distribution after the John F. Kennedy assassination, though the evidence for this is conflicting. Certainly the film was rarely shown in the decades after 1963, but it did appear as part of the Thursday Night Movies series on CBS on September 16, 1965 and again later that season. It was also shown twice on NBC, once in the spring of 1974 and again in the summer of 1975. Sinatra did not acquire distribution rights to The Manchurian Candidate until the late 1970s. He was involved in a theatrical re-release of the film in 1988. The film has aired on a fairly regular basis on the Turner Classic Movies and American Movie Classics cable networks.

Similar rumours and treatment surround the film Suddenly! in which Sinatra himself starred as a Presidential assassin.

moremojo:
Here are the eleven favorite films of 1963 of my single favorite film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum:

O necem jinem, directed by Vera Chytilová

Adieu Philippine, directed by Jacques Rozier

Le Mépris, directed by Jean-Luc Godard

8½, directed by Federico Fellini

Il Gattopardo, directed by Luchino Visconti

Méditerranée, directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet

Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour, directed by Alain Resnais

The Nutty Professor, directed by Jerry Lewis

"La ricotta", segment directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini in the omnibus film Ro.Go.Pa.G.

Shock Corridor, directed by Samuel Fuller

Le Procès, directed by Orson Welles

Jeff Wrangler:
 ;D ;D ;D

No disrespect intended, but that list all looks so high-toned, and then. ...

The Nutty Professor, directed by Jerry Lewis.

 :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:

moremojo:
Rosenbaum is a huge Lewis fan (has been since childhood [he was born in 1943]), and is bemused by the widespread contempt so many contemporary Americans have for the man as a creative agent, considering how immensely popular he was in the 1950's and into the early 60's.

Though I am entertained by The Nutty Professor, I still prefer The Ladies' Man, which really is a sumptuous cinematic masterpiece, and easily illustrates why the French critics embraced Lewis as an auteur of the highest degree.

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