If you haven't seen the original Manchurian Candidate (1962), you should. Great story, great cinematography (in beautiful black & white) and Angela Lansbury plays a great villian. Thats right, Little Miss Murder She Wrote. No singing teapot here I assure you. The background aspects to the film (it was pulled from theatres after the assasination of President Kennedy, Frank Sinatra (who co-starred) bought the rights to the film and summarily shelfed it until 1987), and the timely social and political implications the film puts forth, provide even more reasons why this is a must-see film. (AND its better and more shocking than the remake from 2005 - not to knock Jonathan Demme or Denzel Washington or Meryl Streep or Liev Schrieber)