In the original version of The Manchurian Candidate, soldiers were turned into cold-blooded assassins by “a diabolical method of mind control based on memory’s emotional power.” The brainwashing technique seemed suspiciously familiar to a lot of actors, says Lee Siegel, because it was, in fact, nearly identical to the school known as Method acting, which was developed by “left-wing, socially adversarial” Russians. Hmmmm…