Tonight in JJ Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope. This critically acclaimed film, which is part of BFW’s Democracy in Action series, starts at sundown but there’s usually a fun short beforehand.

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is a Cold War political thriller film adapted by George Axelrod from the 1959 thriller novel, by Richard Condon.

It was directed by John Frankenheimer and stars Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, and Janet Leigh. T

Quick synopsis: The son of a prominent, right-wing political family has been brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for the International Communist Conspiracy. The Manchurian Candidate was nationally released on Wednesday, October 24, 1962, at the zenith of the Cuban Missile Crisis.