Funeral Parade is proud to present Seconds, John Frankenheimer’s chilling dissection of identity and selfhood starring gay icon Rock Hudson.
When a successful yet unfulfilled banking executive (John Randolph) receives a phone call from a long-dead friend, he finds himself drawn into a twilit netherworld where a shadowy company promises him a second chance in life. He agrees to have his death faked and his face surgically altered; his new identity is Antiochus "Tony" Wilson (Rock Hudson), a bohemian artist, and he is relocated to Malibu to live in a community of “reborns”. But as his sense of self begins to fracture, will Tony be able to remember who he really is? A powerful mix of drama, sci-fi, and psychological horror, Seconds’ themes of identity eerily echo Rock Hudson’s own double life as a closeted gay man working in the Golden Age of Hollywood.