36 Hours

Product description Nazis capture an American spy just before D-Day and attempt to trick him into thinking the war is over so they can get details of the pending Allied invasion. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: PG Release Date: 5-JUN-2007 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com WWII 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
ASIN: B000NTPG5C
VSKU: DBV.B000NTPG5C.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:James Garner|Eva Marie Saint|Rod Taylor|Werner Peters|John Banner|Russell Thorson|Ed Gilbert|Sig Ruman|Oscar Beregi Jr.|Alan Napier|Celia Lovsky|Karl Held|George Seaton|Carl K. Hittleman|Roald Dahl|Luis H. Vance
Binding: Dvd
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