Two Seconds (MOD)

Two Seconds (MOD)It's been said that your whole life unfolds before your eyes during your last, fleeting moments of existence. Not so for convicted murderer John Allen. After he's strapped into the electric chair and the switch is thrown that sends the fatal current through his body, he and the movie audience sees the chain of events that turned Allen from amiable high rise construction worker to brutal killer. Edward G. Robinson reteams with Mervyn LeRoy, the

and John Gielgud

the leader of an outlaw gang

Howard Keel and Ann Blyth (who would later team for Kismet) play stalwart Mountie and backwoods hellion in this grand color and CinemaScope version of the beloved operetta

but what's left is great Renoir" (Tom Milne

Within weeks

What can anyone do about hitchhiking

written by three-time Lumet collaborator Jay Presson Allen

"I never wanted to do nothin' as bad as I want to be a lineman

In the Line of Fire)

From Academy Award-winning director Sidney Pollack ("The Firm

One set grows up to be aristocratic swashbucklers

just before she became the real-life Princess Grace of Monaco