Seconds (1966) [VHS]
starring: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Jeff Corey
directed by: John Frankenheimer
directed by: John Frankenheimer
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Rock Hudson stars in this unsettling look at second chances. Banker Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) lives a comfortable, stifling life until he is contacted by a mysterious caller offering "what every middle-aged man wants: complete freedom." Hamilton, with the help of an enigmatic corporation, fakes his own death and starts over in his new swinging-bachelor persona (now played by Rock Hudson). A change of life, though, is not just a change of scenery, and Seconds, for all its thriller aspects, contains some sad and disturbing meditations on the way we make our own prisons. Director John Frankenheimer uses skewed angles, bizarre close-ups, and fisheye lenses to underscore the film's off-kilter tension, and Rock Hudson gives a performance that is light-years removed from Pillow Talk. Well worth watching twice. --Ali Davis
Rock Hudson stars in this unsettling look at second chances. Banker Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) lives a comfortable, stifling life until he is contacted by a mysterious caller offering "what every middle-aged man wants: complete freedom." Hamilton, with the help of an enigmatic corporation, fakes his own death and starts over in his new swinging-bachelor persona (now played by Rock Hudson). A change of life, though, is not just a change of scenery, and Seconds, for all its thriller aspects, contains some sad and disturbing meditations on the way we make our own prisons. Director John Frankenheimer uses skewed angles, bizarre close-ups, and fisheye lenses to underscore the film's off-kilter tension, and Rock Hudson gives a performance that is light-years removed from Pillow Talk. Well worth watching twice. --Ali Davis
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- Get A Make-Over - New Identity, New Life - Just One Catch....
Director John Frankenheimer's thriller, some may call it a horror film, of a man, Arthur Hamilton, a fifty-something with what he considers a tired life -- wow, I guess having a daughter as a medical intern, a large house, big car, wife and an exec in an insurance company is not enough -- feels his life is wasted.One day a phone call, a secret address is passed, and "The Company" has an offer to make him -- plastic surgery, exercise, new identity, new life -- your death is faked, we supply the ... Read More
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- SECONDS-ROCK HUDSON-Why is this film so similar to THE GAME?
SECONDS is a five star film made in 1966 with Rock Hudsonwhich I did not see in the theaters. Made during the peak of 60's political paranoia this film was a veritable celebration of this condition. Filmed with no less than four previously black balled actors and writors, this film explored the prospects of being completely "reborn" with no chance of returning to normalcy or prior life.The unusual camera work and use of distorted sets was as interesting as the plot which was basically a waking ... Read More
Rating: - A Minor Masterpiece
The best damn 90-minute episode of The Twilight Zone I've ever seen! That's a compliment, by the way. A trippy, creepy masterpiece directed by John Frankenheimer at the top of his game. Middle-aged businessman finds a fountain or youth and nearly drowns in it. The best performance Rock Hudson ever gave.
Rating: - A chilling cautionary tale
More than 40 years old now, this small, darkly powerful film still packs a devastating, heartbreaking punch. The story itself is simple, and one that anyone can appreciate: a middle-aged man, vaguely dissatisfied with his supposedly successful life, is offered a second chance in a remade, rejuvenated body, complete with a new life. And of course it's a monstrously Faustian bargain, something that's made clear from the first ominous notes & disorienting graphics of the opening credits.
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Rating: - rose from the ozarks
I remember seeing this movie when I was 14 yrs old. It had a great impact on me(of coures at 14, in the 1960s you'd have to be practically dead, not to be influenced by what was going on in San Fransico).I still think about it from time to time and happened to catch it on tv the other night.The only thing that no one seems to mention, is that John Randolph didn't have much of a choice to stay the way he was.He was blackmailed by the "company" showing a black and white film of him rapeing a young ... Read More
- Get A Make-Over - New Identity, New Life - Just One Catch....Director John Frankenheimer's thriller, some may call it a horror film, of a man, Arthur Hamilton, a fifty-something with what he considers a tired life -- wow, I guess having a daughter as a medical intern, a large house, big car, wife and an exec in an insurance company is not enough -- feels his life is wasted.One day a phone call, a secret address is passed, and "The Company" has an offer to make him -- plastic surgery, exercise, new identity, new life -- your death is faked, we supply the ... Read More
- SECONDS-ROCK HUDSON-Why is this film so similar to THE GAME?SECONDS is a five star film made in 1966 with Rock Hudsonwhich I did not see in the theaters. Made during the peak of 60's political paranoia this film was a veritable celebration of this condition. Filmed with no less than four previously black balled actors and writors, this film explored the prospects of being completely "reborn" with no chance of returning to normalcy or prior life.The unusual camera work and use of distorted sets was as interesting as the plot which was basically a waking ... Read More
- A Minor MasterpieceThe best damn 90-minute episode of The Twilight Zone I've ever seen! That's a compliment, by the way. A trippy, creepy masterpiece directed by John Frankenheimer at the top of his game. Middle-aged businessman finds a fountain or youth and nearly drowns in it. The best performance Rock Hudson ever gave.
- A chilling cautionary taleMore than 40 years old now, this small, darkly powerful film still packs a devastating, heartbreaking punch. The story itself is simple, and one that anyone can appreciate: a middle-aged man, vaguely dissatisfied with his supposedly successful life, is offered a second chance in a remade, rejuvenated body, complete with a new life. And of course it's a monstrously Faustian bargain, something that's made clear from the first ominous notes & disorienting graphics of the opening credits.
Read More
- rose from the ozarksI remember seeing this movie when I was 14 yrs old. It had a great impact on me(of coures at 14, in the 1960s you'd have to be practically dead, not to be influenced by what was going on in San Fransico).I still think about it from time to time and happened to catch it on tv the other night.The only thing that no one seems to mention, is that John Randolph didn't have much of a choice to stay the way he was.He was blackmailed by the "company" showing a black and white film of him rapeing a young ... Read More
