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Seconds (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1966 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Frankenheimer

Written By:
Lewis John Carlino
David Ely

Actors:
Frank Campanella ..... Man in Station
John Randolph ..... Arthur Hamilton
Frances Reid ..... Emily Hamilton
Barbara Werle ..... Secretary
Edgar Stehli ..... Tailor Shop Presser
Aaron Magidow ..... Meat Man
De De Young ..... Nurse
Françoise Ruggieri ..... Girl in Boudoir
Murray Hamilton ..... Charlie Evans
Thom Conroy ..... Dayroom Attendant
Jeff Corey ..... Mr. Ruby
Will Geer ..... Old Man
Richard Anderson ..... Dr. Innes
Rock Hudson ..... Antiochus 'Tony' Wilson
Khigh Dhiegh ..... Davalo

Synopsis:

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.

Arthur Hamilton is a middle aged New York banker living in Scarsdale. He's married with a grown daughter he rarely sees anymore. He is generally disengaged from everything in his life. Based on a series of telephone calls he receives from his supposedly deceased friend Charlie Evans, Arthur is drawn into a company that provides him with a second chance in life. Initially resisting this opportunity, 'they' convince him that he has little to live for in his current life, which includes a past indiscretion, albeit one unintentional on his part. His 'rebirth' will include a cadaver to replace his current body after his death, enough money for his current family to live comfortably after his departure, enough money for his new start in life, a surgical make-over of his current self, and a new identity based on his subconscious desires. This new identity is as a Malibu based painter christened Antiochus 'Tony' Wilson. To assist him in this transition to Tony Wilson, the company provides him with a counselor of sorts, acting as a live-in housekeeper named John, who attends to whatever Tony requires emotionally to make the transition successfully. Even with John's help, Tony is finding it difficult to make the transition, despite or perhaps in spite of meeting a woman named Nora Marcus, with whom he falls in love. He has to discover where he went wrong in his life as Arthur Hamilton and where he went wrong in his transition to Tony Wilson before he can find out where he wants to go and how to achieve getting there. But will the company help him achieve what he wants?

In Scarsdale, the bored banker Arthur Hamilton is contacted by his former friend Charlie Evans that supposedly died several years ago giving information about a secret organization that offers for US$ 30,000.00 a second chance in life to wealthy people. He visits the company and they explain that they use a cadaver with the same characteristics to stage the death of the client and give a new identity after plastic surgeries with new documents. The reborn Arthur is the painter Antiochus 'Tony' Wilson that lives in California with his butler John that helps him in the transition. Tony meets the lonely Nora Marcus on the beach and they have a love affair. But sooner Tony realizes that his fake world does not give satisfaction to him and he returns to the company requesting another life. But the rules are not so easy to be changed.

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