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Seconds
Why this pick
A clinical, unnerving identity-reconstruction thriller whose altered protagonist slowly confronts a life that may not be his, with the same cold institutional menace and disorientation.
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MOVIE1972 1h 43m CAN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Employee John David Welles attempts to steal rocket booster plans from the Groundstar facility. His attempt goes awry and he is badly disfigured in an explosion and barely escapes. He stumbles to the home of Nicole Devon, and collapses. She calls an ambulance, the authorities are alerted, and soon Welles is operated on, given plastic surgery and interrogated by a hard-boiled government official named Tuxan. But Welles claims to have no memory of his crime. In fact, he claims no memory of his life at all, save for brief glimpses of a woman and small boy frolicking on a beach.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Christine Belford
Nicole Devon
Cliff Potts
Carl Mosely
Tim O'Connor
Frank Gossage
Alan Oppenheimer
General Hackett
Ty Haller
Henshaw
Anna Hagan
Dr. Plover
John Destry
Zabrinski
Don Granbery
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