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Call Number: Blu-ray Science-Fiction Seconds
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch
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Based on the novel by David Ely.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.
Special features: Audio commentary with director John Frankenheimer; Alec Baldwin on Seconds (interview with the actor on Frankenheimer and Seconds); A second look (making of featurette featuring interviews with director John Frankenheimer's widow, Evans Frankenheimer, and actor Salome Jens); Palmer and Pomerance on Seconds (visual essay by film scholars R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance); Archival footage: John Frankenheimer (interview with Frankenheimer originally broadcast on Canadian television in 1971 and produced by filmmaker Bruce Pittman); Hollywood on the Hudson (excerpt from rare WNBC news special in 1965 featuring an interview with Rock Hudson). Booklet features an essay by critic David Sterritt.
Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Jeff Corey, Richard Anderson, Murray Hamilton, Karl Swenson, Khigh Dhiegh, Frances Reid, Wesley Addy, John Lawrence, Elisabeth Fraser, Dody Heath, Robert Brubaker, Dorothy Morris, Barbara Werle.
A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
Blu-ray; region A; widescreen (1.75:1) presentation; PCM mono; requires Blu-ray player.
Contents: Seconds.
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SERIES
Criterion collection
667.
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
In English with optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired.
PUBLISHED
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]
Year Published: 2013
Description: 1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.)
Language: English
Format: Blu-Ray
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781604657579
160465757X
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Frankenheimer, John, 1930-2002,
Lewis, Edward,
Carlino, Lewis John,
Hudson, Rock, 1925-1985,
Jens, Salome,
Randolph, John, 1915-2004,
Geer, Will,
Corey, Jeff, 1914-2002,
Anderson, Richard, 1926-
Hamilton, Murray,
Swenson, Karl, 1908-1978,
Dhiegh, Khigh,
Reid, Frances, 1914-2010,
Addy, Wesley,
Lawrence, John, 1931-1992,
Fraser, Elisabeth, 1920-2005,
Heath, Dody, 1928-
Brubaker, Robert,
Morris, Dorothy, 1922-2011,
Werle, Barbara,
Howe, James Wong,
Haworth, Ted, 1917-1993,
Austin, John P.,
Webster, Ferris, 1912-1989,
Newhouse, David,
Martell, Jack,
Saldutti, Peter V., 1928-2010,
Goldsmith, Jerry,
Ely, David, 1927-
Baldwin, Alec, 1958-
Evans, Evans, 1936-
Palmer, R. Barton, 1946-
Pomerance, Murray, 1946-
Pittman, Bruce,
Sterritt, David,
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Joel Productions.
John Frankenheimer Productions.
Gibraltar Productions.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Ely, David, -- 1927- -- Film adaptations.
Businessmen -- Drama.
Surgery, Plastic -- Drama.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Drama.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Horror films.
Science fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.