A film version of the original international stage hit, Jim Sharman""s and 20th Century Fox""s low-budget, campy horror rock musical at a cost of about $1.Saito: That will not be necessary.(Saito turns and walks into his hut, as lightning claps are heard from tropical storm clouds overhead - a brief storm passes through.Directed by the talented Hungarian-accented Michael Curtiz and shot almost entirely on studio sets, the film moves quickly hrough a surprisingly tightly constructed plot, even though the script was written from day to day as the filming progressed and no one knew how the film would end - who would use the two exit visas? [Would Ilsa, Rick""s lover from a past romance in Paris, depart with him or leave with her husband Victor, the leader of the underground resistance movement?] And three weeks after shooting ended, producer Hal Wallis contributed the film""s famous final line - delivered on a fog-shrouded runway.Behold, a lovely maid I see.Rags cannot hide her gentle grace.Alas, she is more fair than thee.Queen: Alas for her, reveal her name.Mirror: Lips red as the rose.Hair black as ebony.Skin white as snow.To the Wicked Queen""s horror, her worst fear is confirmed.She realizes the mirror has described her scullery maid, Snow White.Snow White, dressed in rags, but cheerful despite her misfortune at the hands of a mean and hateful stepmother, scrubs he steps next to the garden.BackgroundThe Manchurian Candidate(1962) is director-producer John Frankenheimer""s prophetically tragic, chilling, brilliant, blackish (film-noirish) Cold War thriller about brain-washing, conspiracy, the dangers of international Communism, McCarthyism, assassination, and political intrigue.