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By the summer of 1944, it was obvious to everyone that Western Europe was about to be invaded by the Allies. What was unknown were the details of when and where. 36 Hours is a thriller revolving around a Nazi scheme to discover the plans for D-Day.

Plot

Having just been to General Eisenhower's final briefing on D-Day operations, US Army Major Jefferson Pike (James Garner ) is called away from London to have an emergency meeting that night with an agent in Lisbon. The agent never arrives, and Pike is drugged and slugged.

Pike wakes up in a US Army Hospital in Occupied Germany five years later with no memory of the intervening period.The psychiatrist handling his case, Maj. 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 an incident in Portugal in June, 1944. Pike is not to worry as his memory always comes back in a few weeks, helped along by a treatment that mostly consists of remembering events before Lisbon, and then pushing on into the blank period.

Pike is gratified that his pre-Lisbon memories, at least, are intact and clear. For instance, he remembers the details of the D-Day briefing as well as if it happened only yesterday. Will Pike tumble to the fact that it did?

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