Seconds

– A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.70 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 46 Minutes
Release Year:
1966
Seconds (1966)

A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically alters the customer to look like the intended person, stages the customer's death, gets rid of the intended person and the customer takes on a new life.

Seconds (1966) - Trailer

Release Date:

14 Nov 1966

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

John Frankenheimer

Writer:

Lewis John Carlino (screenplay), David Ely (based on the novel by)

Main Actors:

Frank Campanella, John Randolph, Frances Reid, Barbara Werle

Plot:

Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life when he receives calls from his old friend Charlie. The only problem is that Charlie is supposed to be dead. Hamilton is eventually introduced to a firm that will fake his death and create an entirely new look and life for him. After undergoing physical reconstruction surgery and months of training and psychotherapy, Hamilton returns to the world in the form of artist Tony Wilson. He has a nice house in Malibu and a manservant, a company employee who is there to assist him with his adjustment. He finds that the life he had hoped for isn't quite what he expected and asks the company to go through the process with surprising results.

Awards:

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.

Production:

Paramount Pictures

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
Metacritic:
71%