Raymond Shaw ( Laurence Harvey), and another member of the unit mysteriously experience the same recurring nightmare in which Shaw follows communist orders and kills two other members of the unit. Ignorant of their brainwashing, the soldiers are released, and after the war Marco, Sgt. Bennett Marco (played by Frank Sinatra) is captured, taken to Manchuria, and brainwashed by communists during the Korean War. © 1962 United Artists Corporation photograph from a private collectionĪ platoon of American soldiers led by Maj.

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