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Synopsis: In this psychological war-drama an Army Major is captured by the Germans during World War II. They attempt to brainwash him into believing the war is over and that he is safe in an Allied hospital, so that he will divulge Allied invasion plans.

Genre: Thriller, War

Director(s): George Seaton

Actors: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor, Werner Peters

Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES


IMDB:: 7.3

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: APPROVED
Year:: 1964
: 115 min
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The British Isles are fast becoming
the greatest arsenal in the history of man.
Farms, where once sheep and cattle grazed,
are now storage depots for tanks...
...and planes and guns.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are
training and waiting for that fateful day...
...when Allied power will be unleashed
against Nazi-dominated Europe.
That an invasion is forthcoming
is now an accepted fact.
But where and when is known
only to a handful of men.
So far, the time and place is
the best-kept military secret of the war.
There is one man
who would like to know...
...and is making every effort
to find out.
And the Allied High Command
is working just as diligently...
...to discover what preparations Hitler
has made and how much he does know.
- Here, keep it.
- Thank you very much, sir.
- Good evening, Pike.
- Major.
- Oh, good evening, Major Pike.
- Hi, Ted.
Thank you.
So you see, Jeff, von Rundstedt
is running the whole show...
...and seems to be listening
only to von Rundstedt.
It appears that he's putting all his chips
on the Pas de Calais.
Mac, you amaze me.
Over 300,000 men waiting for us
at the wrong place and you're worried.
Well, this business is
very much like marriage, Jeff.
When things are going along too smoothly,
you can't help but be a bit suspicious.
But every German general since Clausewitz
called this the only possible invasion route.
Dover to Calais. It's the shortest
distance across the Channel.
Good beaches, good harbor,
maximum air cover.
Leads right to the Ruhr Valley
and the heart of Germany.
It makes sense, Mac.
Maybe we have fooled them.
It makes better sense
to assume we haven't.
But look at their
disposition of troops.
Over 60 divisions here
and only nine at Normandy.
- Pin?
- No, one of those damn paper cuts.
I sliced it on the edge of the map.
Like a razor.
Now, where's their greatest strength?
Right here, the 15th army at Calais.
But will it stay there?
Supposing all these comforting
bits of information we've picked up...
...were leaked to us deliberately?
Supposing they've known all along?
Supposing at the last possible moment...
...after we've committed ourselves,
the 15th moves to back up Normandy?
Come in.
Colonel, the general's office just called.
He can see you now, sir.
Right.
We've got to find out if
they're playing games with us, major.
We haven't much time.
Monday is the 5th.
Do you think your contact in Lisbon
might know anything?
Maybe. I doubt it. He's only a clerk
in the German Embassy.
- He was right about Torch.
- He was awfully wrong about Anzio.
Mac tells me
you felt that was deliberate.
I don't think
he's working for German Intelligence.
I think they know
he's working for us.
Whenever they wanna mislead us...
...they make it easy for him
to find some false information.
They leave a file open,
let him overhear a conversation.
They feed him enough unimportant authentic
stuff to make us think he's dependable.
But you've always been able to
determine which is which.
Yeah, it's not so much
what he tells me, but how.
If he's positive and expensive,
I can be sure it's a fake.
Which makes him trustworthy and reliable,
in a reverse sort of a way.
So if we find
he's absolutely certain it's Calais?
Guarantees it, swears on
his mother's grave and asks $ 1000...
We can be reasonably sure
they know about Normandy.
You can make book on it.
Sit down, sit down.
I think it's worth feeling him out, major.
Well, he'll only talk to me, sir.
That's why
I'm sending you back to Lisbon.
Well, now that I know
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