Film Review of The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate The Manchurian Candidate is a film about the second red scare in the 1950's. Communism is being threatened in the United States, after their takeover in Russia during the Cold War following World War II The character of Johnny Iselin closely portrays Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who, along with HUAC, the CIA, and the FBI blacklisted many notoriously leftist politicians and Hollywood peoples in an attempt to contain communism. The CIA …

…members of the Communist party in the State Department. Works Cited Sara, Simona. Blacklisting of Hollywood's Talent. 22 August 1999<http.//home.earthlink.net/~tenspeed/SimonaSara/blacklist.htm Friedman, Jesse. The Fight for America: Senator Joseph McCarthy. 21 May 1999< http.//sirius.com/~mcjester/writings/cjb.joemccarthy.html Manchurian Candidate. Video. C.1962 SCORES ON REPORT: Good work. You did a nice job of transitioning sentences/paragraphs. Your grade is follows: Purpose: 10/10 Content: 9/10 Organization: 10/10 Mechanics: 8/10 Style: 9/10 Total: 46/50 92% A