Expert: Mel - 7/23/2006

Question
Do you know the name of a movie where an American officer is kidnapped by the Germans just before the Normandy invasion.  They drug him and when he awakens he thinks he's in an allied hospital but it's really Germans who are able to speak like Americans.  He is told that he had been in a coma and to test to see if there was any lingering effects they start to ask him about his part in the invasion.  He suddenly feels a paper cut on his finger that he remembers doing on the last day he rembers and starts to suspect something is up and he starts his escape plans.  Can you please help on this.

Answer
Hello Gregg,

Yes, that was the 1965 film "36 Hours". James Garner starred as the U.S. Major who is being brainwashed into believing that the war is over and that he is safe in an Allied hospital, so that he will divulge Allied invasion plans. Rod Taylor and Eva Marie Saint co-starred.

Here are a couple of links:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/36_hours/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_Hours


Glad to be of help. Cheers........Mel.