Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
- cold war
- korean war (1950-53)
- stepparents
- conspiracy
- brainwashed assassin
- brainwashing
- black and white
- election
- presidential candidate
- sleeper agent
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Frank Sinatra
Capt./Maj. Bennett Marco
Laurence Harvey
Raymond Shaw
Angela Lansbury
Mrs. Iselin
Janet Leigh
Eugenie Rose Chaney
- James Gregory — Sen. John Yerkes Iselin
- Henry Silva — Chunjin
- Leslie Parrish — Jocelyn Jordan
- John McGiver — Sen. Thomas Jordan
- Khigh Dhiegh — Dr. Yen Lo
- James Edwards — Cpl. Allen Melvin
- Douglas Henderson — Col. Milt
- Albert Paulsen — Zilkov
- Barry Kelley — Secretary of Defense
- Lloyd Corrigan — Holborn Gaines
- Madame Spivy — Female Berezovo
- Directed
- John Frankenheimer
- Written
- George Axelrod
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 818 ratings
- Studio
- MC Productions, United Artists
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