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...half of the title represents the time allotted to a forward looking Nazi shrink (Rod Taylor) for extracting Allied invasion plans from an American intelligence officer (James Garner). His plot: drug Garner, then convince him (with a most elaborate hoax set) that he has had amnesia for six years, is in the tender loving hands of victorious Americans, and can only regain his memory through a "therapy" which consists of telling everything he can remember--i.e. the details of D-Day strategy. If this new-fangled ploy founders, Garner gets turned over to the pudgy S.S. man waiting...
...joke? A nightmare? Insanity? It turns out to be a bit of all three, for headlines, history and the hospital itself are fictions of an ingenious Nazi conspiracy. The date is really June 1944. Only hours remain until Dday, and the man is a U.S. Army major (James Garner) privy to top-secret details of the Allied landings in Normandy. On a mission to Lisbon, Garner has been drugged and kidnaped, smuggled off to the Reich as a corpse. He awakes with six years of his life supposedly lost in amnesia. The story becomes credible to him when a lissome...
...makes it tingling fun to play. The plot sizzles along, so intricately contrived that the film is half over before an audience realizes that the characters tangled up in it are a fairly standard crew. Unfortunately, once the puzzle has fallen into place, the movie goes to pieces. Hero Garner and Collaborator Saint plow doggedly through the rubble to discover anew that there is nothing like a tight squeeze for bringing people together, while Rod Taylor, as a Nazi medico imbued with Yankee sportsmanship, reveals that he became a menace only to serve mankind. In the frayed formula ending, Writer...
...takes a heap o' birthday cake to commemorate a man's 96th birthday. And so when 250 friends of John Nance Garner gathered at his Uvalde, Texas, home, they thoughtfully brought along a two-foot-high, German-style Baum-kuchen (tree cake), and two smaller ones decorated with the six flags that have flown over Texas. Cactus Jack eyed them. He studied his neighbors, many of whom can't rightly remember the days when he was Franklin Roosevelt's Vice President, a job he liked to refer to as "a spare tire on the automobile...
...aims most of his episodes at the audience for bell-bottom farce - Actor Garner plays them like a nightclub comic imitating Fred MacMurray. Chayefsky further confuses the issues with a lardy interlarded love story -Actress Julie Andrews plays it as though abre-acting a childhood crush on Greer Garson. "All those men moaning," Julie tremulously murmurs to another young woman. "When they healed, they'd come hoping to spend their last nights of leave with me. I couldn't say no to them, could I? I'd just lost my husband at Tobruk, and I was overwhelmed...