Blu-ray Review 36 Hours Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Richard Gallagher]

Richard Gallagher

36 Hours Blu-ray Review

36 Hours is an engaging thriller with an attractive cast, outstanding cinematography, and an ingenious premise.

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[Robin9]

Major Pike's discovery of the truth does not come too early in the film.

Spoiler

The cut on his finger would make itself known to him sooner rather than later, so it would have been totally implausible for him to go several days before discovering the cut.

I agree that James Garner was over critical of this film.

36 Hours is essential viewing for all admirers of Eva Maria Saint. She was always good but in this film she is excellent.

 

[Jimbo64]

Way too many spoilers here, I'm glad I've already seen the film. Still buying it though!

 

[atfree]

This was on my "will never get a BD release" list of my favorite films. The randomness of WAC's releases is sometimes criticized, but then that randomness gets us some gems like this that weren't on anyone's radar for a BD release.

 

[Richard Gallagher]

Way too many spoilers here, I'm glad I've already seen the film. Still buying it though!

I assume that you're referring to the comment immediately before yours. I agree that there should be a spoiler alert.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I assume that you're referring to the comment immediately before yours. I agree that there should be a spoiler alert.

Taken care of!

 

[JPCinema]

The prices for all the Warner Archive titles for April have not gone lower than list price....I have to wait

 

[Richard Gallagher]

Taken care of!

Thanks, Crawdaddy!

 

[Robert Harris]

It's interesting how many films are discussed for "early reveals."

The flashback dupe section in Vertigo, was in, out, and then back into the cut and conformed negative, as people counseled Hitchcock on the subject.

If you view the film without the sequence, where it now resides, the entire aura of the film changes.

 

[Robert Crawford]

The prices for all the Warner Archive titles for April have not gone lower than list price....I have to wait

Same here! I can afford to buy them now, but on principle, I'll just wait on Amazon.

 

[Richard Gallagher]

Same here! I can afford to buy them now, but on principle, I'll just wait on Amazon.

Yeah, we know that the price will come down, either at Amazon or during a Warner Archive sale (or both). It will probably be available for $17.99 soon, if history is any guide.

 

[Richard Gallagher]

36 Hours now $17.99 at Amazon.

 

[benbess]

I watched the blu-ray of this 1964 movie for the first time the day before yesterday. Good stuff! Excellent PQ.

As Richard Gallagher writes in his perceptive review above:

"James Garner starts out as his usual affable self, but he is quite convincing as the bewildered officer who believes that he has lost all memory of nearly five years of his life. Eva Marie Saint is equally compelling as the Jewish nurse who used her wits to stay alive and found a way out of a concentration camp. Garner writes, “I loved working with Eva, a wonderful actress and a sweet lady.” Rod Taylor certainly looks the part of a German doctor. He doesn’t sound like a German, but that is explained by his character’s upbringing in the United States (by 1964 Taylor had learned to lose his Australian accent). Werner Peters is suitably sinister as the nasty SS officer. John Banner of Hogan’s Heroes fame has a small but important part as an aging and overweight member of the home guard, and you may recognize but not know the name of Celia Lovksy, who plays an elderly housekeeper. She was born in Vienna and in 1933 she fled Germany with Peter Lorre, to whom she was married for 11 years."

I recognized Celia Lovksy as T'Pau on the original Star Trek. She was also in the Twilight Zone episode Queen of the Nile.