Nixon - 1995 Oliver Stone Film

[Richard Booth]

On 3/11/2021 at 4:25 PM, James DiEugenio said:

The Manchurian Candidate and The Parallax View are in their own class in the category of adapted American political thriller novels.

There are three very exceptional films from the early 60s that stand out to me as some of the best films of that area, all three adaptations of novels:

• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Seven Days in May (1964)
• Fail-Safe (1964)

There were remakes of all three of these, most of them pretty bad except for perhaps Fail-Safe.

The Seven Days in May remake was called "The Enemy Within" and came out in '94. Awful. Same goes for the Manchurian Candidate remake.

The Fail-Safe remake was 1999 and on Showtime. It was okay, it was almost a shot for shot remake of the original and was actually more like a play. It was broadcast live and in black and white.