36 Hours is a 1965 suspense film, based on a short story by Roald Dahl, starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint and Rod Taylor, and directed by George Seaton. An American officer is deceived into believing that he has suffered from amnesia and that World War II has ended years ago in an effort to get him to reveal a vital secret.
Having attended General Eisenhower’s final briefing concerning D-Day, US Army Major Jefferson Pike (James Garner) is se...
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36 Hours is a 1965 suspense film, based on a short story by Roald Dahl, starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint and Rod Taylor, and directed by George Seaton. An American officer is deceived into believing that he has suffered from amnesia and that World War II has ended years ago in an effort to get him to reveal a vital secret.
Having attended General Eisenhower’s final briefing concerning D-Day, US Army Major Jefferson Pike (James Garner) is sent from London to confirm with a German official he has recruited in Lisbon that the Nazis still expect the invasion in the wrong place. However, Pike falls into a trap; he is drugged into unconsciousness.
Pike wakes up in a US Army hospital in postwar, occupied Germany five years later, with no memory of the intervening period. The psychiatrist handling his case, Major Walter Gerber (Rod Taylor), explains that he has been having episodes of memory loss for the past few years, ever since he sustained physical trauma in Portugal in June 1944....
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