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36 Hours is a 1965 war film, based on a short story by Roald Dahl, starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint and Rod Taylor, and directed by George Seaton. Having just been to General Eisenhower’s final briefing concerning D-Day, US Army Major Jefferson Pike (James Garner) is called away from London for an emergency meeting that night with an agent in Lisbon. The order turns out to be a Nazi trap; the agent never shows up, and Pike is drugged and slugged. 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. He advises Pike not to worry, as his blocked memories have always resurfaced within a few weeks, helped along by a treatment that mostly consists of remembering events before Lisbon, and then...
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  • 115.0min
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