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Spellbound and The Manchurian Candidate (spoilers)

posted 19 years ago by Bob_Brooker
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I found some parallels between those films worth considering:

- two look-alike lead characters - Laurence Harvey and Gregory Peck http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/9554/38mw.jpg

- plot parallels: soldier gets injured in battle, returns home, has to deal with amnesia/repressed memories

- playing cards are a central element of the trauma: seven of club vs. queen of diamonds http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/4959/55ca.jpg

- comparably shot scenes with an armed protagonist threatening an older man who is about to have a milk http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/5757/46pg.jpg

[–] Percivalx 18 years ago

Interesting.

"How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?"

[–] 18 years ago

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[–] Seanpdineen 17 years ago

Two First class underated films

[–] melnar1 8 years ago

Yes, I was thinking the same thing while going through all the comments on this board, and wondering why no one else brought the subject up.

Another parallel, of course, is the endings of both movies in which Murchison turns the gun on himself in this movie, and Raymond Shaw does the same thing in TMC (1962).