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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 12. 1964.

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Due Shortly in Wellington is The Manchurian Candidate directed by John Frankenheimer. "the most talented and potentially the greatest of the young American directors." Of Frankenheimer's earlier films. The Young Stranger and All Fall Down were promising. The Young Savages disappointing. The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) won two prizes at the Venice Film Festival.

It was however. The Manchurian Candidate which thrust him into prominence as a talent to be reckoned with. Sight and Sound, the British film quarterly, described it as "the American film of the year." The Monthly Film Bulletin, of the British Film Institute, added a comment to the effect that it was also the un-American film of the year. His latest film. Seven Days In May is a screen translation of the best-selling political thriller. The film has been highly praised by British and American critics and seems assured of success. He is at present working on The Train, his fourth film with Burt Lancaster. Jeanne Moreau and Paul Scofield also feature in this story of the French underground during World War II.