36 Hours
by George Seaton
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Actor: Eva Marie Saint, James Garner, John Banner, Rod Taylor, Werner PetersDirector: George Seaton
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Portuguese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of 36 Hours
Movie Review: WWII spy movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Great, great movie. John Banner (Schultz in "Hogan's Heroes") nearly steals the end of the film.
Summary of 36 Hours
A gripping WWII thriller in which Nazis capture an American spy and try to trick him into thinking that the war has ended. Major Jefferson Pike has been sent on an intelligence assignment to Portugal. But once there he is trapped and drugged by Germans who take him to a remote hospital in the Black Forest. There psychiatrist Walter Gerber attempts to fool Pike into thinking that he's been suffering from amnesia for the past six years and that the fighting has ceased. With this plot the Germans hope to get the Major to reveal where and when the Allies will be mounting their D-Day campaign. To pull off this deception the Nazis convince Pike that the hospital is actually run by Americans -- a hoax that's easily accomplished because the entire staff speaks English. Will Pike realize what's going on or will he be duped into giving the Nazis the information they need?On the eve of the D-Day invasion an American intelligence officer in Portugal is captured by the Nazis. They brainwash him into believing that it's six years later so he'll reveal information about the invasion.Runtime: 115 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?NR UPC:?012569797031 Manufacturer No:?79703WWII films of the '60s were often half caper-movie, with ornate and muscular missions behind enemy lines dreamed up by the likes of Alistair MacLean. The caper in 36 Hours (1965)--which was dreamed up by Roald Dahl--reverses the dynamics. A U.S. diplomatic courier (James Garner) with knowledge of the plans for D-Day is kidnapped, drugged, and taken to a sanatorium surrounded by forest. He wakes up in the presence of solicitous doctors and staff who seem to be fellow Americans and ever so happy to have him back after all those years in a coma. War's long over, of course; we won--and isn't it a good thing the Allies scrapped that first, wacky invasion plan they almost used? The plan maybe he still remembers?... 36 Hours is an intriguing thriller up to a point--and the moment when Garner catches on to the trick is a grabber--but George Seaton's direction is pedestrian and the production has a soundstage-y look. Rod Taylor takes acting honors as the sympathetic German psychiatrist in charge of the plot, under the suspicious eyes of SS man Werner Peters. --Richard T. Jameson
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