The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate is a film about the second red scare in the 1950's. Communism is being threatened in the United States, after their takeover in Russia during the Cold War following World War II
The character of Johnny Iselin closely portrays Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who, along with HUAC, the CIA, and the FBI blacklisted many notoriously leftist politicians and Hollywood peoples in an attempt to contain communism. The CIA investigated the backgrounds of many former communist cardholders. Their policy was guilty until proven innocent.
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