When Admiral Robertson returned to the bridge, he kneeled over Carlson""s body, when his throat was slit from behind with a machete(# 7 death)." He asked: "How long will this time of peace last?" to which she replied: "Nothing lasts forever, my king.That""s all I had to go by - novels.Leslie old me he""d rather have me than any girl on board or any girl he""d ever known because I was so responsive.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.