![]() And, Raymond Shaw ( Laurence Harvey) has been in a Cold War with his heartless mother, Eleanor Shaw Iselin ( Angela Lansbury) his entire life. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) begins, and we are in the middle of the Korean War. Raymond Shaw’s Power-Hungry Narcissistic Mother That’s dangerous, when Raymond has no one else. But how does a power-hungry mother infiltrate a love-starved child’s mind? If the child does anything else but listen and follow, he’s lost her. We might even say Trump was The Manchurian Candidate in 2016. ![]() We know foreign powers infiltrate elections. And, so he becomes his power-hungry Mother’s Russian pawn. “Yes, Mother,” “Yes, Ma’am, and “Yes, Sir” govern his responses. Raymond is deeply convinced: “I’m not lovable.” No wonder he has enough hate to be brainwashed to kill. In John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate (1962), that’s Eleanor Shaw Iselin, Mother of lead character Raymond Shaw.
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