Cursed like Katie Bell had been, Slughorn was planning to give the entire bottle of mead to Dumbledore as a gift, not realizing that the mead had lethal poison mixed in with it, and it would have killed the Headmaster.This great film was nominated in three Academy Award categories, including Best Supporting Actor (Robert Stack who should have won, but lost to Anthony Quinn forLust for Life) and Best Song ("Written on the Wind"), with Dorothy Malone aking home the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (her sole career nomination and win) for an overacted slinky, catty role as a sex-obsessed, wild, nymphomaniacal, provocative member of the Texas oil dynasty""s family.- places hat have connections with the past or with death.]The next day, in fantasy-like, soft-focused diffused light, he trails the gray-suited woman in her light-green (!) Jaguar sedan all over San Francisco as she drives around and around (almost always driving down streets, going left then right, left then right).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.