Hollywood used to produce hard edged cinema. Not anymore. Seconds is a testament to that..

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Khigh Dhiegh -- Davalo -- made a career out of playing sinister oriental types and is probably best remembered as Wu Fat in the original Hawaii Five-O and Dr Yen Lo in The Manchurian Candidate. Interestingly, he was not only NOT Chinese, he didn't have a drop of Asian blood in his veins. By ethnicity, he was British, Egyptian and Sudanese, but changed his birth name of Kenneth Dickerson for career reasons. If you listen closely, you'll pick up the vocal inflections of New York, where he was raised.

Will Geer somehow conveys the paradox of all that is good and all that is evil at the same time. Incredible.

Rock Hudson was AMAZING in this movie

The scene with the ball-gag, priest and the final trip on the gurney is absolutely harrowing. "Cranial drill."

It's FRANKENHAMMER time and Rock Hudson taking the KAFKA Route. In a few months the SIGHT AND SOUND MOVIE POLL will announce the best movies of all time and this can be apexed with Vertigo, Citizen Kane or who knows what it could be. But it irks me that this film isn't anywhere on that list.

This gives new meaning to the term RETCONNING.

The Stars of the Lid song Down 3 sampled this scene starting at 2:02. I've always wondered where it came from.

Pardon my off-topic comment. Bruce Willis in Death Becomes Her (faintly similar, though the means of reclaiming one's youth is different) elects to live only his allotted life span, with noble pursuits like medicine and mountain climbing instead of lechery (I sound so moralistic...meh, if the shoe fits, wear it)

Now at this same period of time Sean Connery made the film The Hill , he was these two actors making two different films , both out of their comfort zones, now i,am going to make a real comment on Seconds on other page here and a great deal of detail here,so look forward to own comment here

The bald, Oriental-looking guy in this movie: didn't he go on to become a famous James Bond villain? I've seen him in several movies, and he always played the super-cool bad guy.

1:40 Dr. Yen Lo still around.

i always loved the part where richard anderson and RH flinch at the same time - 00:38 or thereabouts - I was impressed at the empathic connection

I too got a call from an old friend whom I thought had passed away. I was very interested in joining the program to get a new life, but when I met with the Company for an interview it turned out that I didn't have sufficient life insurance to qualify. It seems that the Company would depend heavily on substantial life insurance proceeds to fund my new identity, Company infrastructure, and to have enough proceeds left over to take care of my wife and children.

I saw this film on TV late at night when i was 13. It absolutely disturbed me for years. I still get chills from experiencing that ending. The kindly oldman played by Will Geer is amazingly disturbing. He's the Devil i tell you

The movie is awesome and it made perfect sense to me. What are you people talking about, I'm curious?

Seconds became known for its connection to the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson. The story, which originated in the October 1967 magazine article "Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!", goes that when he arrived late to a theater showing of Seconds, he appeared to be greeted with the onscreen dialogue, "Come in, Mr. Wilson." He was convinced for some time that rival producer Phil Spector (one of the film's investors) was taunting him through the movie, and that it was written about his recent traumatic experiences and intellectual pursuits, going so far as to note that "even the beach was in it, a whole thing about the beach." He later cancelled the Beach Boys' forthcoming album Smile, and the film reportedly frightened him so much that he did not visit another movie theater until 1982's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

This film is called science fiction, but could have easily qualified as horror. It was probably Rock Hudson's finest performance. Unfortunately, it suffered from a script that made little to no sense.

GREAT MOVIE 🎥 💖

John Frankenheimer's Paranoia Trilogy, as it's unofficially called, consisted of Seven Days in May, The Manchurian Candidate, and Seconds. The screenplay for Seven Days in May was written by Rod Serling, who was also a friend of Frankenheimer's. Seconds does, at times, have the feel of the Twilight Zone episodes, complete with the shocking twist ending that is unforgettable. Everything and everyone in this film is superb, especially the acting, the direction, the cinematography, the music, and the editing. The result is a work of art, despite its commercial failure.

Where is Prince Mutha F******?! Sorry to curse in front of the kids....

Heavy film. Hudson should be applauded doing this film, which was definitely 'not him'..... and he was brilliant.

a thoroughly evil film....that chills to the bone

4:45 That's how things will be in the future. First we get the degrees, then we try to live up to them ;-p

The plastic surgeon in Dark Passage was much better. It only took a week with no scars at all to make someone look like Bogart ;-p