Storyline：The "fragile" boy was taking vitamins, eyedrops, albuterol, and Poly-Vi-Flor, but Lois insisted: "He""s gonna grow up to be big and strong like his dad.The film""s morality tale of corruption ends with its ultimate defeat and the saving of the community by a morally-redeemed martyr (a common man with a conscience).The creatures were destroying the furniture, putting themselves continually in lethal danger (falling or catapulting, releasing sharp knives, lighting matches, etc.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.