After making The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Seven Days in May (1964) John Frankenheimer wrapped up his creepily paranoid but uncannily prescient trilogy of political thrillers with the lesser known Seconds (1966). In it Rock Hudson plays a staid businessman who, Philip K. Dick-style, employs a mysterious company to extract him from his dull but respectable life and provide him with a new identity as a louche Malibu artist.