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Anybody else bugged by Harvey's terrible American accent?

posted 14 years ago by movie_nazi
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The most annoying flaw of this film (Sinatra's poor acting a close second) was Harvey's American accent or lack thereof. It was so fkn distracting. Another thing that bugged me was Silva as an Asian? LMAO. Absolutely laughable. I know they hired real Asians in movies back then. WTF? Anyways the strong points of the film far outweight the shortcomings and I have enjoyed the film over and over again over the years.

The Manchurian Candidate 1962 - 7 outta 10 stars

My vote history link:http://imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=5504773

[–] MartyMoose1977 (222) 5 months ago

At first I laughed at the accent but it is actually fine because Harvey has been in the military for 19 years he likely spent a ton of time in Europe during WW2 and after before 1950 when Korean War kicked off.