In this chilling, cynical tale of communist subversion, Laurence Harvey plays a soldier who, upon returning from the Korean War, is honored for saving his platoon from enemy attack. The only trouble is, his commanding officer (Frank Sinatra) can't remember the deeds Harvey is supposed to have done, and he keeps having horrible nightmares in which he sees Harvey shoot the two men from their brigade who didn't make it home. It seems the communists brainwashed Harvey to be a trained assassin and programmed his comrades at arms to forget all about it. For whom is Harvey subconsciously working? And where do his McCarthyesque senator stepfather (James Gregory) and bitter, calculating mother (Angela Lansbury) fit in? It's up to Sinatra to convince the Pentagon that a sinister plot is afoot, and then to foil it.

A must-see, especially for anybody who's never seen Lansbury outside of her cozy and caring mystery-author role in "Murder, She Wrote." The film got glowing reviews when it was first released but was then shelved for 25 years in a dispute between United Artists and Sinatra, who was variously reported as believing that the studio was hiding the movie's profits and distressed over the parallels between the movie and President Kennedy's assassination the following year.