Politics! Intrigue! Brainwashing! Frank Sinatra! In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss The Manchurian Candidate!

In this episode we look at:

• Richard Condon's original 1959 novel.
• The 1962 movie, directed by John Frankenheimer, written by George Axelrod, and starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury.
• The 2004 remake, directed by Jonathan Demme, written by Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris, and starring Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, and Meryl Streep.

Footnotes:

• An introduction to Malory Archer
• A history of the term "fridging" coined by comics writer Gail Simone, along with her website Women in Refrigerators

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