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The Manchurian Candidate (1962): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 thriller, drama film directed by John Frankenheimer. It scores 7.9 on IMDb, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 94 on Metacritic, 7.5 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 79 while Metacritic critics give it 94, a gap of 15 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 11 of 67 films from 1962 in our catalog and number 70 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh, James Gregory, Henry Silva.

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