High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 36 Hours is a 1965 American suspense film, based on the short story "Beware of the Dog" by Roald Dahl, starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, and Rod Taylor, and directed by George Seaton. An American officer is deceived into believing that he has suffered from amnesia and that World War II has ended years ago in an effort to get him to reveal a vital secret.