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Having learned filmmaking in the Air Force, followed by journeyman work
as a director for television during the medium's "golden age"
of the 1950s, John Frankenheimer has proven himself a master at crafting
tautly constructed, visually arresting thrillers laced with antiestablishment
distrust. Indeed, Frankenheimer's most commercially provocative works from
the early '60s (which also mirrored his TV apprenticeship through his stylish
flair for strong black-and-white cinematography) threatened to eclipse subsequent
works; The Manchurian Candidate, subsequently pulled from circulation in
the wake of John F. Kennedy's assassination, seemed a zenith the director
could not best. But Frankenheimer
has outlasted his own legend to regain critical and commercial clout in
the '90s, thanks to his best recent works, most notably Ronin.
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