Book Vs Movie "The Manchurian Candidate" (Replay)

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Book Vs Movie</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>“</strong><strong><em>The Manchurian Candidate”</em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Richard Condon Novel Vs. the 1962 John Frankenheimer Cult Classic</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/60822/Manchurian-Candidate.jpg" alt="" width="551" height="314" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Margos have a thing for espionage and intrigue in this ep talking about the</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Condon"><strong>Richard Condon</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">1959 novel</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchurian_Candidate_(1962_film)"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Manchurian Candidate</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">which was bought by</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra"><strong>Frank Sinatra</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">United Artists</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">films and made into a controversial movie in 1962. Detailing the life of former infantrymen who are brainwashed by the Soviet Union while captured in the Korean War and who later aim to overthrow the United States via a presidential election--it was considered a classic “bad book” by Time magazine (which meant it as a compliment) and seems prescient considering what is happening in politics today.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The story of Major Bennett Marco and Sergeant Raymond Shaw and their recurring nightmares over what they experienced makes up the rest of the book. In short, Shaw can become an assassin when given a “posthypnotic trigger” and his mother is married to Senator Johnny Iselin. She and Ray have an incestual relationship and she is working with the Communists to get her husba