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Germans kidnap an American Major and try to convince him that World War II is over so they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.Germans kidnap an American Major and try to convince him that World War II is over so they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.Germans kidnap an American Major and try to convince him that World War II is over so they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
Oscar Beregi Jr.
- Lt. Colonel Ostermann
- (as Oscar Beregi)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJames Doohan: The soon-to-be "Montgomery Scott" of Star Trek (1966) is uncredited as a British orderly in the opening scenes. Doohan served in Canadian forces during the Normandy Invasion (which the film is about) where he lost part of a finger. Future Imperfect (1990) and Stratagem (2004) were inspired by this film.
- GoofsThe phony newspaper which Pike is given on arrival in hospital, has a front page item about the UN. Although the United Nations first opened in 1945, the name comes from January 1942, when Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation outlining the basic set-up and goals for such an organization. This is all that the Nazis would have needed to make this phony report.
- Quotes
Maj. Jefferson F. Pike: Are you really an army sergeant?
Sgt. Ernst: Regular army - no. I am too old, too fat! Home guard. We are patrolling the border so then the young, strong, and handsome men can go to Russia and freeze to death. Wonderful system, huh?
[Laughs]
- Alternate versionsAlso available in a computer colorized version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in MGM 40th Anniversary (1964)
Featured review
Give Me 36 Hours and I'll Give You a Traitor!
This is one of my favorite WW II movies. It's tag line was GIVE ME THIRTY SIX HOURS and I'll give you a traitor. D-Day is upon the Germans defending The Atlantic Wall. The US is about to launch a colossal invasion force on the European continent, but where will the blow strike? To be sure German agents kidnap American Major Pike (James Garner) from neutral Spain and send him deep into Germany where they've set up a Ptomekin village, a US post in an occupied Germany sometime five years hence. The psychologist an American born German serving in the Wehrmacht is to persuade captured Pike that Pike has been suffering from amnesia for five years and has now recovered his long term memory at the cost of losing his recent memory. The setting is idyllic and the gilted cage is cozy, replete with a faux-wife.
Will Pike see through the German plot? A must see unusually well done spy story.
Will Pike see through the German plot? A must see unusually well done spy story.
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- May 22, 2005
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- Thirty Six Hours
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- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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