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Seconds
Directed by
John Frankenheimer
R
1966
1h 47m
Science Fiction
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Thriller
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7.6
79%
87%
7.3
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A sinister company transforms a plain client.
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Cast of Seconds
Rock Hudson
Antiochus 'Tony' Wilson / Associate Producer
Salome Jens
Nora Marcus
John Randolph
Arthur Hamilton
Will Geer
Old Man
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
Dodie Heath
Sue Bushman
Robert Brubaker
Mayberry
Jane Wald
Party Guest
Dorothy Morris
Mrs. Filter
Frank Campanella
Man in Station
Barbara Werle
Secretary
Edgar Stehli
Tailor Shop Presser
Seconds Ratings & Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Wael Khairy
John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" will linger a lot longer than the title suggests in the mind of anyone who chooses to watch it. In fact, it might be one of the most haunting American films to come out of the 1960s, or any decade for that matter.
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Sean Axmaker
[Rock] Hudson, an icon of good, clean romantic fun and stolid heroism, becomes the American hero unable to fathom this would-be paradise with shadowy edges and an unstable foundation.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
Perhaps the director's most personal film, Seconds holds a deeply human message and marvelous cautionary tale, ever hopeful to viewers who heed its warning.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Myles Standish
It is a brilliant, fascinating, weird and horrifying piece of work which probably will emerge as one of the best films of the year.
Detroit Free Press
Louis Cook
It's a little difficult to figure Rock Hudson in a chiller but he shows an unexpected professional acting quality in Seconds.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
I think Mr. Frankenheimer was the one with bad dream. While the picture is superbly directed and has reasonably mature dialogue, he has failed to make the idea engrossing or convincing.
Arizona Republic
William J. Nazzaro
It suffers from more than a few faults, but anyone who appreciates film entertainment made by a master craftsman will enjoy this harrowing exercise in mounting suspense.
Charlotte Observer
Dick Banks
Seconds is an exceptionally original shocker, nicely balanced between plausibility and cruel fantasy.
Los Angeles Times
Philip K. Scheuer
It makes a dramatic actor out of the till now fashionably predictable farceur Rock Hudson. He's not great, but he puts together a pretty good fac-simile of a man suffering the tortures of the damned.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elston Brooks
The half-world of twilight horror and stark realism that director John Frankenheimer probed so chillingly in The Manchurian Candidate has come under the Frankenheimer scalpel again in a remarkable motion picture called Seconds.
Austin American-Statesman
John Bustin
[Frankenheimer] succeeds in making the tale a weirdly absorbing thriller, full of twists and fascinating surprises, and that cinematographer James Wong Howe complements the eerie spell with his inventive black-and-white photography.
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
Too utterly fantastic to be credible.
San Francisco Examiner
Stanley Eichelbaum
Hudson, however, can't be blamed for the story going to pot. It never does regain the hypnotic appeal of the initial sequences. Yet Hudson actually turns in the most forcefully convincing performance of his career.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Henry T. Murdock
Give this one an "E" for effort if not a "D" for distinguished.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
Once Rock appears, though, the spell is shattered, and through no fault of his own. Instead of honestly exploring the ordeal of assuming a second identity, the script subsides for nearly an hour into conventional Hollywood fantasy.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
The movie is fascinating near-science fiction melodrama, badly acted, directed and written.
Chicago Tribune
Clifford Terry
[Seconds builds] toward an ending of such nightmarish intensity that any viewer who might have been wishfully toying with the idea of such a project for himself will certainly be jarred into second thoughts.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
From the opening-credits sequence, Seconds mangles and distends the windows of perception until viewers get immersed in [Arthur's] sweat-soaked nightmare.
Variety
Variety Staff
US suburbia boredom is treated in an original manner in this cross between a sci-fi opus, a thriller, a suspense pic and a parable on certain aspects of American middle-class life.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The screenplay ollapses into musty moralizing in the second half, and director John Frankenheimer throws in the towel.
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