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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0012569797031
Feature: 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 s
Format: Black & White, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0FrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0GermanOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0PortugueseOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 79703
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2007
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 19, 1965
Features:- 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 s
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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
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Interesting concept and well-executed. It kept my attention all through the end. I bought this as a gift for my WWII-vet father.
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George Seaton was a Hollywood A-level writer and director who could tell a story efficiently and professionally. He also knew movies had to sell tickets to be successful. He kept that in mind while creating, often with William Perlberg as producer, movies that were satisfyingly A caliber and watchable, even when they were serious by Hollywood standards. He didn't mind threading in irony or even a message or two, but usually these were plot driven. Seaton, in other words, knew his way around.
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For ingenious pitches, 36 Hours is hard to beat: James Garner's military intelligence officer gets knocked out cold in Lisbon on the eve of D-Day and regains consciousness to discover its 1950 and he's been suffering recurring amnesia for the past six years. Unable to remember his friends or even his wife, his best hope of a cure is to try to remember what was on his mind just before his accident. Only it's not 1950, and the last thing on his mind was the details of the invasion, which Rod Taylor's ... Read More
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A rarely seen film with little noteriety, but with a compelling, rvistting story. I was immediately drawn in from the first moment. It's a must see for me every time its on TV. It's on my list of all time favorites.
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A wonderful film, about a kidnapped Allie Officer who is originally convinced that WWII is over through a mamoth falsified army hospital and German ingenuity. After releasing the information of D Day's actual location, he realizes he's been duped and needs to backtrack. After many years, this film remains an under appreciated classic. Worth seeing every so often, just to watch a genre played gallantly.
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