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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304410493
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
ISBN: 0792144090
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: May 29, 2001
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 18640
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: October 05, 1966
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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 ... Read More
Rating: - One Of The Most Disturbing Horror Movies Ever
The director John Frankenheimer made "Seconds" during his 1960's hot streak that also included The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition) and Seven Days in May. "Seconds" is quite simply one of the most disturbing horror films ever made. It has a perfectly constructed script that keeps piling on the surprises and shocks to a nightmarish crescendo. There has seldom been a movie that so well evokes the atmosphere of Kafka. Mix in a frighteningly acute portrait of the psychological and social discontents ... Read More
Rating: - Ahead Of It's Time
This movie never received the recognition it deserved, as Rock Hudson never received the recognition he deserved for the phenomenal performance he gave as a middle aged man given a second chance to create the life he believes he wants. It's a Faustian tale that cautions the viewer to "be careful what you wish for, for you just might get it". I read the book before I ever saw the movie, and was not one bit disappointed in the film. It follows the book pretty much to the letter. John Randolph is transformed ... Read More
Rating: - Seconds
Boasting one of Hudson's finest screen performances, this bizarre tale of self-transformation gets the paranoiac treatment from Frankenheimer, a veteran of political thrillers, and ace cameraman James Wong Howe, whose evocative camerawork adds to the sense of unease. Hamilton is as much a victim of his own desire to be someone else as he is of creepy company founder "The Old Man" (Will Geer), and Hudson portrays his character's naiveté beautifully. Strong support from Jens, Randolph, and Addy, the butler who's ... Read More
Rating:  - "What do you got left?"
I watched this movie last night and I thought it was okay. The idea of having the main character change lives reminded me a lot of the Jim Carrey movie "The Majestic" while the ending is brilliant in which the doctors are about to torture and kill Tony Wilson/Arthur Hamition (Rock Hudson). That scene seemed to be a prelude to "A Clockwork Orange" five years later in which the hero (Malcolm McDowell) raises so much hell that his friends, like what happens to Rock Hudson in this movie, start to turn against them and ... Read More
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