I am watching the Manchurian Candidate right now, and a car drove past a marquee with this movie's title in the movie. The Manchurian Candidate came out in 1962.
One of the finest early examples of the "Magical Negro" trope. Rafer Johnson imparts his profound wisdom to produce an epiphany for Román's character before ultimately sacrificing his life for Scott's character and crew.
This showed the industry how free pirate themed films could be. Unfortunately the system that hated pirates, just like with native films or ancient civilisations, wanted no part in it... until Disney showed them the profit predictions
