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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; John Frankenheimer</title>
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		<title>THE FIXER &#8211; Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Bates]]></category>
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The Fixer (1968)
Direction: John Frankenheimer
Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo, from Bernard Malamud&#8217;s 1966 novel
Cast: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Hartman, Ian Holm, David Opatoshu, David Warner, Carol White
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In 1969, director John Frankenheimer declared that he felt &#34;better about The Fixer than anything I&#8217;ve ever done in my life.&#34; Considering Frankenheimer&#8217;s previous output &#8212; Seven Days in May, the much admired The Manchurian Candidate &#8212; it is hard to believe that the director was being anything but a good PR man for his latest release. 
Adapted from Bernard Malamud&#8217;s National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (which itself was based on the real story of Jewish bricklayer Mendel Beiliss), The Fixer is an overlong, overblown, and overwrought contrivance that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE d: Jonathan Demme</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2004 01:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Direction: Jonathan Demme
Screenplay: Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris, from George Axelrod&#8217;s 1962 screenplay and Richard Condon&#8217;s 1959 novel
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Kimberly Elise, Bruno Ganz, Ted Levine, Vera Farmiga, Miguel Ferrer, Dean Stockwell, Simon McBurney

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While keeping the framework of the 1962 original,  Jonathan Demme&#8217;s remake of John Frankenheimer&#8217;s political thriller The Manchurian Candidate has revamped the plot so as to create parallels between what takes place on-screen and current  events. The results are mixed at best. 
In the new version, adapted by Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris  from  George Axelrod&#8217;s 1962 screenplay and Richard Condon&#8217;s 1959 Cold War novel, U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) [...]]]></description>
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