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Laurence Harvey: Raymond Shaw
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John Frankenheimer's surrealistic direction and George Axelrod's adaptation of the excellent and bestselling 1959 book by the same name offer Laurence Harvey a career defining role. In the 1950's, a Korean War veteran Raymond Shaw (Harvey) returns home to a medal of honour for rescuing his PoW platoon from behind Chinese lines. However one of the returning soldiers (played effectively by Frank Sinatra) has recurring dreams of his platoon being brainwashed and of Shaw committing acts of murder. He eventually convinces army brass that Shaw is still a puppet of his Communist-Marxist operators. Angela Lansbury gives a compelling performance as Shaw's mother and the wife of a top United States Senator.
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Harvey was now a star. He was cast in the role that had made Peter O'Toole famous in the West End in the movie version of The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) as O'Toole had yet to establish himself as a cinema star and Harvey was more "bankable". During the 1950s and 1960s, Harvey appeared in several major films, including Butterfield 8 (1960), John Wayne's epic The Alamo (1960), Walk on the Wild Side (1962) with Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Fonda and Capucine, the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke (1961) with Geraldine Page, and Darling (1965) with Julie Christie. In this period, he ... appeared as Raymond Shaw, the eponymous The Manchurian Candidate (1962), the role for which he is best known.
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The unit comes home with the story imbedded in their heads that Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) saved their lives. Shaw wins the Congressional Medal of Honor, which his mother (Angela Lansbury) and stepfather, Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), begin to use to their advantage in the upcoming campaign.
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