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36 Hours (1965)

36 Hours poster
Directed by
George Seaton
Genre
war film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 51m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 76 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An American intelligence officer is captured by Germans and drugged. He wakes up believing World War II is over, but the Germans are using this illusion to trick him into revealing invasion plans.

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What happens

36 Hours is a 1964 American thriller film written and directed by George Seaton from a story by Carl K. Hittleman and Luis Vance, based on the 1944 short story "Beware of the Dog" by Roald Dahl. The film stars James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor and Werner Peters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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