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Added Joisey to trivia, because a Troper wanted a Word Of God reference source before agreeing that the fact that the brainwashing scene where the soldiers are lead to believe they are waiting out a storm in the Spring Lake Hotel in New Jersey, and the actor who plays Dr. Lo was born in Spring Lake, New Jersey, was more than a coincidence to be an Actor Allusion.
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* {{Joisey}}: In the hotel scene, the soldiers have been brainwashed by Dr. Yen Lo to believe they are waiting out a storm in New Jersey (which the placard for the "flower club" reads as Spring Lake Hotel), while they are actually being displayed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the brainwashing to an audience of Communist officials. [[FakeNationality American actor Khigh Dhiegh who plays Dr. Lo was born in Spring Lake, New Jersey.]]
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* PlayingAgainstType: It wasn't playing against type at the time, as Creator/AngelaLansbury had played her fair share of schemers and antagonists. But for a modern-day viewer who might know her from ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' or Disney's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'' (the latter of which came out less than a decade after ''The Manchurian Candidate''), watching her play Mrs. Iselin could be jarring given how ruthless and un-motherly Iselin is compared to characters like Mrs. Potts.
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** It wasn't playing against type at the time, as Creator/AngelaLansbury had played her fair share of schemers and antagonists. But for a modern-day viewer who might know her from ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' or Disney's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'' (the latter of which came out less than a decade after ''The Manchurian Candidate''), watching her play Mrs. Iselin could be jarring given how ruthless and un-motherly Iselin is compared to characters like Mrs. Potts.
** It wasn't playing against type at the time, as Creator/AngelaLansbury had played her fair share of schemers and antagonists. But for a modern-day viewer who might know her from ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' or Disney's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'' (the latter of which came out less than a decade after ''The Manchurian Candidate''), watching her play Mrs. Iselin could be jarring given how ruthless and un-motherly Iselin is compared to characters like Mrs. Potts.
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** Lloyd Corrigan as Holborn Gaines. Corrigan was a character actor regularly typecast as bunglers and doddering old fools subject to constant slapstick - usually in B-Westerns and family friendly sitcoms. And while Holborn Gaines is certainly an effeminate character (getting murdered in bed while wearing his dead wife's frilly bed jacket), it's mostly played straight and is then in a much darker and more political context. Before the audience even officially sees Gaines, he's already been labelled a communist by a furious Mrs. Iselin (the first such character in the film to be the object of her incessant red-baiting).
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** Lloyd Corrigan as Holborn Gaines. Corrigan was a character actor regularly typecast as bunglers and doddering old fools subject to constant slapstick - usually in B-Westerns and family friendly sitcoms. And while Holborn Gaines is certainly an effeminate character (getting murdered in bed while wearing his dead wife's frilly bed jacket), it's mostly played straight and is then in a much darker and darker, more political context. Before the audience even officially sees Gaines, he's already been labelled a communist by a furious Mrs. Iselin (the first such character in the film to be the object of her incessant red-baiting).
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** Lloyd Corrigan as Holborn Gaines. Corrigan was a character actor regularly typecast as bunglers and doddering old fools subject to constant slapstick - usually in B-Westerns and family friendly sitcoms. And while Holborn Gaines is certainly an effeminate character (getting murdered in bed while wearing his dead wife's frilly bed jacket), it's mostly played straight and is played out in a darker and more political context. Before the audience even officially sees Gaines, he's already been labelled a communist by a furious Mrs. Iselin (the first such character in the film to be the object of her incessant red-baiting).
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** Lloyd Corrigan as Holborn Gaines. Corrigan was a character actor regularly typecast as bunglers and doddering old fools subject to constant slapstick - usually in B-Westerns and family friendly sitcoms. And while Holborn Gaines is certainly an effeminate character (getting murdered in bed while wearing his dead wife's frilly bed jacket), it's mostly played straight and is played out then in a much darker and more political context. Before the audience even officially sees Gaines, he's already been labelled a communist by a furious Mrs. Iselin (the first such character in the film to be the object of her incessant red-baiting).
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** Lloyd Corrigan as Holborn Gaines. Corrigan a character actor regularly typecast as bunglers and doddering old fools subject to constant slapstick - usually in B-Westerns and family friendly sitcoms. And while Holborn Gaines is certainly an effeminate character (getting murdered in bed while wearing his dead wife's frilly bed jacket), it's mostly played straight and is played out in a darker and more political context. Before the audience even officially sees Gaines, he's already been labelled a communist by a furious Mrs. Iselin (the first such character in the film to be the object of her incessant red-baiting).
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** Lloyd Corrigan as Holborn Gaines. Corrigan was a character actor regularly typecast as bunglers and doddering old fools subject to constant slapstick - usually in B-Westerns and family friendly sitcoms. And while Holborn Gaines is certainly an effeminate character (getting murdered in bed while wearing his dead wife's frilly bed jacket), it's mostly played straight and is played out in a darker and more political context. Before the audience even officially sees Gaines, he's already been labelled a communist by a furious Mrs. Iselin (the first such character in the film to be the object of her incessant red-baiting).
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** Lloyd Corrigan as Holborn Gaines. Corrigan was mostly known for appearing in B-movies, Westerns, and family films - usually typecast as bunglers and doddering old fools subject to constant slapstick. And while Corrigan's Gaines character is certainly effeminate (getting murdered while wearing his wife's frilly bed jacket), it's mostly played straight and is played out in a darker and more political context. Before the audience even officially sees Gaines he's already been labelled a communist by a furious Mrs. Iselin (the first such character in the film to be the object of her red baiting).
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** Lloyd Corrigan as Holborn Gaines. Corrigan was mostly known for appearing in B-movies, Westerns, and family films - usually a character actor regularly typecast as bunglers and doddering old fools subject to constant slapstick. slapstick - usually in B-Westerns and family friendly sitcoms. And while Corrigan's Holborn Gaines character is certainly an effeminate character (getting murdered in bed while wearing his dead wife's frilly bed jacket), it's mostly played straight and is played out in a darker and more political context. Before the audience even officially sees Gaines Gaines, he's already been labelled a communist by a furious Mrs. Iselin (the first such character in the film to be the object of her red baiting).incessant red-baiting).
