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I had recorded Seconds on TCM the other day, became totally engaged in the movie, and just as they strapped Rock Hudson to the gurney and took him away my recording ended. My scream echoed throughout the neighborhood. Would someone please tell me how the movie ended?! I would be extremely grateful.
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Okay you know that before that sequence starts,Rock Hudson(Tony Wilson) talks to one of the heads of the Company,he voices concerns that his new life isn't that what he was hoping.
Okay he is strapped on the gurney is wheeled down a corridor,a man asks about his religion upbringing and assures that he knows all the religions amd then proceeds to give Tony, the last rites in different religious tones. Tony then that he will become a cadaver and that this it and tries to get out of the gurney but is held down and is forced to have cotten stuffed into his mouth.
The gurney comes to a stop and the doctor who performed the surgery/life change to the man who became Tony and voiced that he,Tony,was the best he ever performed on and them gives him a sedative shot,as Tony starts to go to sleep.
The doctor reads from a chart and sees that he is good shape and that he dies from hemorhage in the brain and then picks up a drill and starts to press on the side where the hemorhage was located,the camera goes up to one of the operating lights as you hear the drill press down.
My screams when I saw that was not as loud as your screams
Hope this helps
Hey Bannercaptain!
Thanks so much for the great recap. I sit here asking myself, "Did I really want to know all that?!" Drill. Ugh. Wonderful movie, though, and the ending is appropriate. I appreciate your taking the time with the details. I will stop screaming now that I feel I have seen the ending. Wait... the drill... one more scream.
bollmr, my recording ended too. Yours ended a minute before the end right? Mine too. Isn't that strange?
shareIt's not strange. It's not a coincidence as TCM often lets its film runtimes go over the announced scheduled times. I also missed the very ending, and would like to SEE it somewhere! It's very aggravating!
shareI think maybe it was cut short on TCM because there was an introduction from Robert Osborne that lasted approximately five minutes. However, the run time was listed as 1:48. Whatever. I prefer to blame TCM rather than my own lack of DVR knowledge.
I found a copy of Seconds at http://www.sell.com/2547D9 for $15.99 instead of the outrageous prices I was seeing on Amazon.com for $60 and up. Granted, this is a copy of the movie and I have no idea yet of the picture and sound quality, but for that price it's worth a try. My husband wants to see the movie and I can finally hear the drill.
The exact same thing happened to me, except my recording ending with the scene where Will Geer's character comes into the room where Tony Wilson is sleeping and they start to have a chat, which I assume is still a few minutes before the ending. Very frustrating.
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Yes, that's pretty much the same spot as is being described in the OP, give or take a couple of seconds. Everyone who programmed their DVRs normally would have had the last minute cut off.
What's even more irritating, I know full well that TCM has a tendency to cut off endings, so I usually program the DVR to add on 5 to 15 minutes, but I didn't do it this time! When will I learn?
I had recorded Seconds on TCM the other day, became totally engaged in the movie, and just as they strapped Rock Hudson to the gurney and took him away my recording ended. My scream echoed throughout the neighborhood. Would someone please tell me how the movie ended?! I would be extremely grateful.
Are you in NYC with Cablevision as your service?
I had the same thing take place as well, but I knew the ending.
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Hi Vpilutis,
No, I'm in Los Angeles with Uverse. I haven't had movies on TCM cut off on me before so I was lulled into a false sense of security. I've learned my lesson and will now be adding five to ten minutes on the DVR recordings. I've had this happen before on other channels, although not frequently.
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As it turned out it was TCM's error and not the cable outlets, but I don't understand why the timing on SPEED 2 was mucked up.
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thank you for this thread! My recording stopped while the old man was talking to Rock Hudson in his bedroom. I didn't even see him strapped to the gurney!
shareSame here. I guess the thing to remember when recording movies is to add some time to the end of the recording. I should have done it with this one but I wasn't thinking. With TCM a lot of times the movies don't last the alloted time and they fill the rest with promos. You just never know, especially since they might start off with a long commentary.
shareMaybe I'm a little dense, but exactly WHY did the company kill Tony? My take on it was Tony's behavior was a little unpredictable - he contacted his wife & the Company told him not to do so - and the Company was afraid Tony might reveal info about them to the wrong people.
Opinions, please.
Something like that. Also they were very uptight about their reputation and didn't want a failure like him to bring everyone else down. Personally, after visiting the ex in stuffy old Scarsdale, I would have been back on the beach pronto. He could have made some changes to his life there but kept his new identity.
shareI am so grateful for this thread, I also missed the ending because of the TCM intro and I was like "DAMN!!!" Interesting film, well worth watching, I'd never heard of it before.
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Thanks for asking for this info- I am on Comcast in Portland, OR and went thru the same agony.
Lousy way to wrap up an intense film- glad to know it ended kinda how I imagined it would end...
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It occurs to me that even though I own a copy of the DVD, I set my DVR to record it (Time Warner) and the same thing happened to me. Very frustrating because sometimes you don't want to pull out the DVD and are happy to be able to record things on a whim and then watch them later. Interesting that it occurred with myriad providers.
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