Video: 'The Manchurian Candidate' trailer

(Wednesday, October 24, 1962; during the Cuban Missile Crisis, part of the Cold War) — The Manchurian Candidate, an American neo-noir psychological political thriller film about the son of a prominent, right-wing political family who has been brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international communist conspiracy, opened today at the Astor Theatre, 1537 Broadway in the Manhattan borough of New York City.

Video: 'The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - Movie' (12 clips)

Directed by John Frankenheimer, the film stars Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, and Leslie Parrish.