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Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2294BD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 667.Publisher: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]Description: 1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781604657579
  • 160465757X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .S43 2013
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, James Wong Howe ; art director, Ted Haworth ; set decorations, John Austin ; film editors, Ferris Webster, David Newhouse ; costumers, Jack Martel, Pete Saldutti ; music, Jerry Goldsmith.
Cast: 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.Summary: 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.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00311 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050306869

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.

MPAA rating: R; for some nudity.

Blu-ray; region A; widescreen (1.75:1) presentation; PCM mono; requires Blu-ray player.

In English with optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired.

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