The weekly old movie review from Kathy Shaidle at Steyn Online.
Have to admit I've never heard of this one, and I'm a big Frankenheimer fan (Ronin anyone? The last good flick Robert DeNiro did...). I'll have to give it a watch.
Posted on 08/18/2019 1:51:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The term "midlife crisis" was coined by psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques in 1965. The English language somehow made do without that phrase for the previous six hundred years, yet today, could we get along without it?
In 1900, the average American male life expectancy was 47. In 1965, it was 67. An additional two decades of existence: More time to ruminate about your time running out.
In this as in so many instances, art preceded (social) science: The then-nameless male midlife crisis had been explored before, through farce (1955's The Seven Year Itch), then high-brow literature (John Cheever's classic 1964 story "The Swimmer.")
For whatever it's worth, the first movie made after Jaques' "discovery" was John Frankenheimer's Seconds (1966), starring Rock Hudson. (Eventually.)
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The weekly old movie review from Kathy Shaidle at Steyn Online.
Have to admit I've never heard of this one, and I'm a big Frankenheimer fan (Ronin anyone? The last good flick Robert DeNiro did...). I'll have to give it a watch.
It’s a fantastic movie. Saw it as a kid.
A haunting and at times terrifying movie,the best thing Rock Hudson ever did
Yup..the best.
Free, with Amazon Prime Movies.
“Free, with Amazon Prime Movies.”
Great, thanks Jane Long! We have this. I am wondering if hubby ever saw this movie. He’s the kind of person that can sit and watch movie after movie after movie.
;-)
Anything with Jeff Corey (who I know as Mr. Lomax) in it is usually great. LOL
bump
This is a great movie. I discovered it by accident in my 20s and it was very powerful. And Mark Steyn is right, the final scene is haunting and not something I’ve ever forgotten.
I saw “Seconds” back in the 80s when the newly started WHNS TV was still independent.
That station ran all kinds of great stuff before becoming a Fox affiliate.
I remember watching it in the 60’s in my grandmother’s den. It scared the crap outta me.
It scared the crap out of Brian Wilson too. It scared the crap out of Brian Wilson too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(1966_film)
Does anyone know why Mark seemed to be missing for awhile recently?
-—”In 1900, the average American male life expectancy was 47.”
This is misleading. Does anyone think that the newspaper obituaries were filled with 47 year olds dropping dead? The average(!) includes all the infant deaths and children who died from TB and smallpox.
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