Watch: 36 Hours 1964 123movies, Full Movie Online – In this psychological war-drama an Army Major is captured by the Germans during World War II. They attempt to brainwash him into believing the war is over and that he is safe in an Allied hospital, so that he will divulge Allied invasion plans..
Plot: Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
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Skeptical About Information Not Obtained Under Torture
36 Hours is a film that finds James Garner as a major attached to Allied intelligence and to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in London. The best kept secret of World War II was the exact date and location of the cross channel invasion into western Europe. As things get closer to D-Day, the Allies want to make sure the Nazis stay fooled right up to the end.Which is why Garner goes to Lisbon to check out a source at the German Embassy in neutral Portugal. But the Nazis have been watching him too. While in Lisbon, he meets up with a Mr. Michael Finn at a hotel bar rendezvous which renders him unconscious and Garner is secretly flown to Germany.
The nice things about 36 Hours is that some of the facts about the landings at Normandy are woven very nicely into an intricate espionage story. Incidentally some of the same facts that were used in another Garner classic film, The Americanization of Emily, but in a far more comic vein.
What the Nazis have decided to do is trick Garner into revealing the plans for the imminent invasion. They’ve set up an elaborate facade of a US. Army Hospital in an occupied Germany in 1950 and when Garner wakes up, they’re going to convince him that the war is over and the allies have been victorious. They’ve even cooked up a love interest in Eva Marie Saint who is formerly a concentration camp inmate and like all of them will do anything to avoid going back.
All this is the brainchild of German doctor Rod Taylor who is convinced that without the usual Nazi like methods Garner can be tricked into revealing vital information. Skeptical about the plan, but willing to go along with it if it succeeds is SS major Werner Peters who played a lovely variety of Nazis in the Sixties.
Of course when Garner does realize this is all a charade it becomes quite a three cornered cat and mouse game between him and Taylor and Peters. The SS has a tried and true motto, they’re skeptical in general about information not obtained under torture.
36 Hours is a finely executed espionage and escape drama. The cast is at they’re combined very best. But as good as the ones I’ve mentioned, there is one stunningly droll performance by John Banner, soon to become Sergeant Schultz on Hogan’s Heroes. He plays a German version of Dad’s Army and he’s one of the older generation that hasn’t bought into the Nazi way. He’s the best in this fine film.
Thanks for the memory?
This B&W movie “36 Hours” is now being repeated on digital TV quite regularly, and I never tire of watching it. The WW II storyline, written by Roald Dahl & Carl Hittleman, is an odd one. It has to be one of the most implausible, yet somehow believable tales ever to be thought up.A US “hospital” run by Nazi Intelligence has been set up in Germany to enable secrets to be winkled out from it’s “patients” (i.e. prisoners). The gimmick is that the inmates are led to believe that the war has been over for a number of years in favour of the Allies.
The new arrival a certain Maj. Jefferson Pike (James Garner) is an Overlorder (i.e. someone who is “au fait” with the plans of the forthcoming Normandy landings). After being kidnapped in Lisbon he is brought unconscious to the hospital and given necessary ageing treatment. On regaining consciousness he is told that he is suffering from amnesia, and has been a hospital patient for years, but he must now start remembering.
A disguised Wehrmacht psychiatrist Maj. Walter Gerber (an American born German, but a good guy at heart) (Rod Taylor) is given the task of unlocking the valuable knowledge. If he fails, he and his hospital are for the chop. (And the Allies will succeed in their invasion etc. etc.) Anna Hedler, his nurse, and supposedly Pike’s wife, is an ex-concentration camp internee (Eve Marie Saint) who will do anything not to be sent back. End of stage one, but will the secrets come out in stage two?…watch the movie to find out.
“36 Hours”, ably directed by George Seaton, is an intriguing movie that holds the attention right to the last. It’s an intelligent script, complemented by intelligent acting, with suspenseful music holding it all together. Not exactly a classic, but I certainly think it will last the test of time (and on reflection…I suppose it already has done). Personally I love it.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 55 min (115 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Thriller, War
Director George Seaton
Writer George Seaton, Roald Dahl, Carl K. Hittleman
Actors James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm