The Prince Charles Cinema

Funeral Parade presents "Seconds"

  • 1966
  • 106mins
  • USA
  • (15)
  • Sci-Fi / Thriller
Directed by John Frankenheimer Starring Rock Hudson, John Randolph, Frank Campanella

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.

Tuesday 5th May