Seconds [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Seconds [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: John Frankenheimer Cast: Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson
, Salome Jens
Salome Jens
, John Randolph
John Randolph
, Will Geer
Will Geer
John Frankenheimer
Seconds [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Seconds [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: John Frankenheimer Cast: Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson
, Salome Jens
Salome Jens
, John Randolph
John Randolph
, Will Geer
Will Geer
John Frankenheimer

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Overview

Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is a listless Manhattan businessman who lives with his wife in the New York suburbs. One day, he runs into an old friend (Murray Hamilton) whom he thought had died. The friend leads him to The Company, a secretive operation run by The Old Man (Will Geer). The Company is a high-tech service which, for a price, provides older men with plastic surgery, a beefed-up body, and a fresh start in life. To cover the "disappearance," a middle-aged male cadaver is "killed" in a hotel fire. Hamilton submits to the operation that will turn him into a "Second," and when the bandages are removed, he's shed twenty years, renamed Tony Wilson and portrayed by Rock Hudson. The Company creates a new identity for Hamilton, relocating him in a hedonistic California beach community with an identity as a painter. Celebrating during a local wine festival, Hamilton has his revelry cut short when he learns that all his new young friends are Seconds like himself and suddenly feels trapped in these surroundings. Unfortunately, finding a way out isn't nearly as easy as it was to find a way in.

Product Details

Release Date: 08/13/2013
UPC: 0715515108614
Original Release: 1966
Rating: R
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Presentation: [B&W]
Language: English
Time: 1:47:00
Sales rank: 8,604

Special Features

Audio Commentary featuring Director John Frankenheimer; New interview with actor Alec Baldwin; Excerpts from Hollywood on the Hudson, a 1965 television program featuring on-set footage and an interview with actor Rock Hudson; New program on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Evans Frankenheimer; Director's Widow; Actor Salome Jens; Interview with Frankenheimer from 1971; New visual essay by film scholars R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance; Plus: a Booklet featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Rock Hudson Antiochus "Tony" Wilson
Salome Jens Norma Marcus
John Randolph Arthur Hamilton
Will Geer Boss
Jeff Corey Mr. Ruby
Richard Anderson Dr. Innes
Murray Hamilton Charlie Evans
Karl Swenson Dr. Morris
Khigh Dhiegh Davalo
Frances Reid Emily Hamilton
Wesley Addy John
John Lawrence Texan
Elisabeth Fraser Plump Blonde
Dody Heath Sue Bushman
Robert Brubaker Mayberry
Dorothy Morris Mrs. Filter
Barbara Werle Secretary
Frank Campanella Man in Station
Edgar Stehli Tailor Shop Presser
Aaron Magidow Meat Man
De De Young Nurse,Mr. Filter
Francoise Ruggieri Girl in Boudoir,Girl in Boudoir
Thom Conroy Dayroom Attendant
Kirk Duncan Mr. Filter
William Wintersole Operating Room Doctor
Tina Scala Young Girl
Jerry Goldsmith Composer

Technical Credits
John Frankenheimer Director
Edward Lewis Producer
Lewis John Carlino Screenwriter
Howard Beals Sound Effects
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