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It’s about time this Frosty War classic (based on the recent by Richard Condon) was re-released on DVD with a few extras. I haven’t seen the remake yet (and if I do, it’ll be purely because Denzel is in it), but it has its work prick out for it if it aims to be as capable as the modern.
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You can read the other reviews if you want station details. In a nutshell: Laurence Harvey is Raymond Shaw, a sergeant in the U.S. Army captured and brainwashed in Korea along with the rest of his platoon; Frank Sinatra is Maj. Bennett Marco, who was captured and brainwashed with the others; Angela Lansbury is Shaw’s mother (even though in genuine life she was objective three years older than Harvey!), a manipulative witch now married to Sen. John Iselin (James Gregory) and conniving to acquire him into the White House. The problem: the boys are all befriend home, Shaw has received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the platoon members don’t consume their period of captivity, and Marco is having the _strangest_ dreams . . .
The DVD transfer is definite and crisp, and the extras are okay. But the true star is the film itself, which is fair absolutely shining and sometimes wickedly droll (e.g., exactly _how_ many Communists have been identified? Close-up of a Heinz catsup bottle . . . and the number is . . . ) . The psychological tension here is excruciating; the brainwashing sequences alone will give you the willies.
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The cast performs flawlessly, with even Sinatra holding his own; Harvey is eerily disturbing and Lansbury is impartial tedious scary. John Frankenheimer’s direction deserves all the kudos it received, George Axelrod’s screenplay is mostly beneficial (the exception being that Janet Leigh’s character Rosie is strangely underdeveloped and seems ‘tacked on’), and David Amram’s net is really cold (I especially like the opening theme) .
And as the existence of a remake indicates, the movie is tranquil unfortunately timely (at least in its mountainous outlines) even though the Icy War is over. As anyone familiar with e.g. the history of LSD is aware, communist regimes weren’t the only governments in the world to experiment with mind control.
However honorable or unpleasant the remake turns out to be, we can at least be ecstatic it provided a commercial incentive to release a original edition of the 1962 new. Grab it while it’s available.
This is a big DVD with many beneficial bonus features, including the Director’s commentary that adds so mighty to the notion of how the film was made. The film was shot primarily with wide angle lenses which heightens the achieve of some very horrid screens. For example is there anything more unbelievable than the scene where the captured, brainwashed prisoners contain they are attending a ladies’ garden party, while actually on stage as human guinea pigs in a meeting of communist cadres. Unprejudiced an fantastic juxtaposition of images! The storyline is well developed and never loses the taut feeling of suspense from commence to enact. Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, and Angela Lansbury are particularly pretty in their roles. If there is only one criticism, it is that Harvey lapses at times into his current British accent, which is disconcerting. But given the power of his performance in this role, this is a minor detail that can easily be overlooked. The film is shot in shadowy and white, which is far better superb to its wintry war images. Fair puzzled why MGM issued the hide for this DVD in color? Anyway, highly recommend this DVD!
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