Reggie Nalder plays an uncredited role in The Manchurian Candidate, a character named Gomel who watches the demonstration of the Communists’ brainwashing technique early in the film. But Star Trek fans remember Reggie him as the Andorian ambassador Shras in “Journey to Babel.” Nalder is known best for chilling turns in The Man Who Knew Too Much and the Salem’s Lot miniseries. Nalder’s “gaunt face, expressive eyes, and soft, haunting voice never fail to absorb,” Shane Pitkin writes for IMDB. Manchurian Candidate cast members Reggie Nalder, James Gregory, and Leslie Parrish all guested on Star TrekĪustrian character actor Reggie Nalder is renowned for the “icy touch” he brought to the often villainous roles he played.
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David Livingston, the episode’s director and “an unabashed fan of The Manchurian Candidate, tried unsuccessfully to get someone from the movie to appear … as an extra,” reports Larry Nemecek in his Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion (page 166).
And the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Mind’s Eye” revolves around a Romulan plot to reprogram Geordi La Forge as a killer.
The assassination attempt on the Federation President at the climax of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country pays homage to the attempted assassination in The Manchurian Candidate’s climax. The Manchurian Candidate has directly influenced Star Trek productions. Nonetheless, The Manchurian Candidate has become widely accepted as a classic. It didn’t perform well at the box office and won few awards, although one was a Golden Globe for the late Angela Lansbury in a bravura, deeply disturbing performance. Indeed, critic Bosley Crowther, in his review, said “it could agitate some grave imaginings in anxious minds these days” ( The New York Times Book of Movies, page 683). The movie hit theaters at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a real-world context that must have made it seem unbearably timely. Once he sees the Queen of Diamonds, he can be ordered to do anything-even assassinate a presidential candidate. His “operators” can activate him by instructing him to play solitaire. soldier who returns from the Korean War having been brainwashed by foreign Communists.
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Recently, I saw not one, not two, but three iconic guest stars from the original Star Trek series in a single film: The Manchurian Candidate, which marks its 60th anniversary later this month (October 24).Īdapted from Richard Condon’s 1959 novel and directed by John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate is the story of a U.S. Part of the fun of watching classic movies as a Star Trek fan is spotting actors from the franchise in other roles. According to IMDb, (read it in Rod Serling’s gravelly voice) here are the top episodes.The Manchurian Candidate features three iconic Star Trek actors. Yet, you’d be hard pressed to find someone that doesn’t enjoy watching the show when it’s on, let alone have a couple of their favorite episodes ready to cue up and heap gobs of praise on. The show has launched a litany of movies, attempted remakes, toys, games, comic books, and even an amusement park ride, “The Tower Of Terror.” There are very few shows that have come out over the years that are so popular from generation to generation. The ran for five years and has been in syndication more or less ever since. The stories almost always were some sort of morality play or just a great yarn being spun all with a big twist ending that left viewers reeling and coming back for more and more. The series is the ultimate in anthology series, tacking any numbers of issues some of which still valid today. In 1959, Rod Serling gifted the world The Twilight Zone and the world has been forever in his debt ever since.
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