Cheyne (Melvyn Douglas), while vomiting after consuming six ice cream sodas.He falls into the ocean - unbeknownst to anyone.He is rescued by a crusty, but likeable and kindly Portuguese fisherman with curly-locked hair named Manuel (Spencer Tracy), who works as a doryman on a Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing vessel off the Grand Banks [in the North Atlantic Ocean S/SE of Newfoundland]:Fifteen years I""ve been fisherman.After gesturing for the alien to come out of the closet, it emerges wearing his robe.Elliott introduces himself:Do you talk, you know, talk? Me human.Boy.Elliott.Ell-i-ott.Elliott.In a profoundly simple scene, Elliott uses objects in his bedroom to introduce his ""alien"" world and culture to the creature, a world of materialism and violence.Elizabeth saw her father Governor Swann (Jonathan Pryce) as one of many dead souls floating by in a boat, executed by Beckett.It was also the shortest Best Picture winner at 91 minutes.Plot SynopsisThe film depicts thirty-six hours in the life of the main character: 34 year-old, bug-eyed Marty Piletti (Ernest Borgnine) - an ordinary, burly, heavy-set Bronx butcher.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.