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mix

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Sat Jul-10-10 01:03 PM
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Favorite Rock Hudson movie

Edited on Sat Jul-10-10 01:14 PM by mix

Mine is Seconds (1966). Great movie about second chances.

Through extensive plastic surgery and psychoanalysis, Hamilton is transformed into Tony Wilson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(film)
Follow the disambiguation.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHHhJ96646M

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CBGLuthier

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Sat Jul-10-10 01:20 PM
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1. Great Movie. In his small part Murray Hamilton almost steals it

Truly unforgettable film with as shocking an ending as they come.

I also have a fondness for both Ice Station Zebra and on the comedic side Man's Favorite Sport? where he plays the fishing "expert" who doesn't fish.

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Flaxbee

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Sat Jul-10-10 01:32 PM
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2. Not the same genre, but Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back

are both very funny... and Tony Randall is indispensable in both.

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joeybee12

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Sat Jul-10-10 03:43 PM
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10. Pillow Talk is great...a lot of fun...n/t

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edbermac

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Sat Jul-10-10 01:41 PM
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3. Fascinating and depressing as hell.

I saw this years ago along with a movie called The Swimmer with Burt Lancaster, so they're always linked in my mind.

I always remember the cocktail party scene when he drunkenly invites his girlfriend into the bedroom and she looks at him and
says "Why Mr Wilson, you dirty old man!" and the look on his face is priceless. And a few minutes later he finds out all his neighbors are 'Seconds' like him.
Followed by the sequence when he goes back to his former house and his former wife.

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mix

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Sun Jul-11-10 06:07 PM
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15. It's a great premise...

the desire to be someone else, to have another life--like a commodity to be bought--is at the center of the bourgeois psyche.

Mine included.

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A HERETIC I AM

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Sat Jul-10-10 01:42 PM
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4. Giant.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049261/

W/ Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean and a young Dennis Hopper

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jonnyblitz

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Sat Jul-10-10 08:47 PM
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14. that would be my choice as well.

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Paladin

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Sat Jul-10-10 01:54 PM
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5. "Seconds" Without A Doubt.

Talk about an under-appreciated classic.....

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Doc_Technical

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Sat Jul-10-10 02:48 PM
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6. Pretty Maids all in a row

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067610/

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Hissyspit

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Mon Jul-12-10 12:47 AM
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20. Not on DVD!

Why?

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jobycom

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Mon Jul-12-10 12:50 AM
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21. Great Angie Dickinson movie, at the very least.

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pokerfan

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Sat Jul-10-10 02:50 PM
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7. Ice Station Zebra

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Faygo Kid

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Sat Jul-10-10 02:52 PM
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8. Yup. "Giant," too.

He actually did a number of very good ones.

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pokerfan

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Sat Jul-10-10 03:42 PM
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9. It helped that I was a huge Alistair Maclean fan back in junior high

(Hudson) also tried his hand in the action genre with Tobruk (1967), the lead in 1968's spy thriller Ice Station Zebra, a role which he had actively sought and remained his personal favorite, and westerns with The Undefeated (1969) opposite John Wayne. (wikipedia)

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Lindsey

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Sat Jul-10-10 04:06 PM
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11. I LOVE Rock Hudson. His movies w/Doris Day are feel good

classics - Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, Send me no Flowers. I never saw Seconds so I guess I'll see if I can Netflix it. As far as drama, I'd have to go w/Giant.

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KamaAina

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Sun Jul-11-10 09:42 PM
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19. Hell yeah!!

I once worked at a place in Chicago that would now be called the "North Loop". Back then, all it was, was a place where I had a full frontal view of the frozen lake all winter. :scared:

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Sat Jul-10-10 04:19 PM
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12. "Seconds," because the fluff was just that...fluff.

Too bad Hudson prospered in a time where he couldn't openly and joyously be the man he was. Such is life, I guess...but "Seconds" was powerful and terrifying and din;t depend on him smooching Doris Day. That's why it got my vote.

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Tikki

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Sat Jul-10-10 08:31 PM
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13. OK, I'm just gonna say it....."Martian Chronicles".

Tikki

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cwydro

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Sun Jul-11-10 06:20 PM
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16. Ice Station Zebra.

Great old flick.

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mix

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Sun Jul-11-10 07:35 PM
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17. Nothing like a "great old flick."

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HardWorkingDem

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Sun Jul-11-10 07:48 PM
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18. Showdown...with Dean Martin....

The scene where the sound of their laughter can be heard.

Also, You Don't Send Me Flowers when he is sleeping and gets slapped by Doris Day.

Hard to believe he's been dead a quarter of a century.

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Ron Green

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Mon Jul-12-10 12:54 AM
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22. "Seconds" is a good one, with James Howe's photography, but check out

the brilliant Douglas Sirk melodramas "All That Heaven Allows" and "Written on the Wind." Incredible technicolor, and Rock does a fine job in both of them.

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Iggo

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Mon Jul-12-10 01:10 AM
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23. Tobruk. (n/t)

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av8rdave

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Mon Jul-12-10 08:00 AM
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24. A Gathering of Eagles

I guess because of my military aviation background.

One of the few films about military flying/culture that wasn't too far out there, accuracy - wise.

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