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An unnerving film about brainwashed soldiers; captured in the Korean war some of them have been conditioned to carry out any act whatever, and with no memory or guilt. At the time of its production, the film caused considerable alarm that "the communists" were capable of this evil manipulation; the film (based on a book by Richard Condon) culminates in one of the soldiers assassinating the President of the USA, as he had been programmed to do. When J F Kennedy was assassinated a year later, the film was withdrawn from distribution for a couple of decades.
The effect of the brainwashing is shown to us early on in the film: Shaw, the American army platoon commander, and his men seem to be attending a ladies' lecture on hydrangeas; the audience consists of twenty or so middle-class, middle-aged ladies. The camera turns slowly through 360 degrees and we see the audience and now the soldiers again, but the speaker is a burly Korean, Yen Lo, expounding to an audience of Korean students. This fantasy continues over several minutes, and includes the strangulation by Shaw of one of his men ... seen on the floor in the picture.
HF July 2005, assisted by Anjawana
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