Any Second Now

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Any Second Now
Based onstory by Levitt, Bob Mitchell, Harold Jack Bloom
Screenplay byGene Levitt
Directed by Gene Levitt
Starring Stewart Granger
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producer Roy Huggins
ProducerGene Levitt
Production companyUniversal
Original release
Release1969 (1969)

Any Second Now is a 1969 TV film directed by Gene Levitt and starring Stewart Granger and Lois Nettleton. [1] The film score was composed by Leonard Rosenman.

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Plot

A philandering photographer plans to kill his wife. He fails and the wife gets amnesia.

Cast

Production

Any Second Now was Granger's first Hollywood film in six years. Filming began 11 February 1969. [2]

Reception

The Los Angeles Times called Any Second Now "suspenseful and sudsy enough to hold the viewer's attention." [3]

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References

  1. "TALENT QUEST WINNER ACTS IN TV MOVIE". Chicago Tribune. Feb 5, 1969. ProQuest   168871300.
  2. "Other 47 -- no title". Los Angeles Times. Jan 20, 1969. ProQuest   156083843.
  3. Lowry, Cynthia (Feb 13, 1969). "MOVIE FOR TV: 'Any Second Now' on NBC". Los Angeles Times. p. i14.