26-11-2013, 01:05 AM
I watched the movie '36 Hours' on Turner Classic Movies last night. It's a clever story about an American officer in WWII who is kidnapped by the Nazis in order to find out the date and location of the D-Day invasion. German Intelligence drugs James Garner and takes him to an entire false American Army hospital they constructed in Germany stocked with Americanized Nazis who pretended they were the real deal. The head Nazi psychiatrist tricked Garner into thinking he was finally waking up out of 6 years of amnesia and that it was 1950. The psychiatrist then told Garner trying to remember what he did right before his amnesia would help him recover. When asked about his D-Day briefings Garner spilled the Normandy location. I won't give away what happened from there because this movie is worth catching just for its obvious 1965 era Intelligence tactics consultation.
The reason I posted this in the Kennedy section is because when the Nazis brought fake 1950's newspapers in to fool James Garner the front page said "President Wallace Plans World Wide Peace Initiative" The headline next to it was a story about FDR going to Warm Springs. Knowing this was 1965 and just after the JFK assassination I couldn't help but think the liberal Hollywood creators of '36 Hours' were telegraphing Freudian association of FDR's death with Kennedy's peace initiatives. The underlying suggestion being one had something to do with the other. You know, Kennedy's renown peace efforts had something to do with his own "Warm Springs". The plot of '36 Hours' has the equivalent of MK-ULTRA scientists and Gestapo along with their political rivalries as a rather noticeable analogy.
The reason I posted this in the Kennedy section is because when the Nazis brought fake 1950's newspapers in to fool James Garner the front page said "President Wallace Plans World Wide Peace Initiative" The headline next to it was a story about FDR going to Warm Springs. Knowing this was 1965 and just after the JFK assassination I couldn't help but think the liberal Hollywood creators of '36 Hours' were telegraphing Freudian association of FDR's death with Kennedy's peace initiatives. The underlying suggestion being one had something to do with the other. You know, Kennedy's renown peace efforts had something to do with his own "Warm Springs". The plot of '36 Hours' has the equivalent of MK-ULTRA scientists and Gestapo along with their political rivalries as a rather noticeable analogy.