With D-Day less than 72 hours off, top US intelligence officer Jefferson Pike (Corbin Bernsen), is captured by the enemy. Pike, one of handful of officers who know where the allies will strike, is a professional who the Nazis know will never succumb to torture. They hatch a diabolical plan to deceive him into thinking that the war is over and he's recuperating from memory loss in a US hospital in Germany. His doctor (John Glover) and nurse (Joanna Pacula) head an elite Nazi psychological team that attempt to convince Pike into revealing the top secret. But as time slips away, Pike's captors decide he must reach his BREAKING POINT... or die.
Acting
Glover's icicle-smile doctor steals every scene
Direction
Fake hospital set design disorients beautifully
Director
Peter Markle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This TV movie was part of a wave of late-80s WWII psychological thrillers trying to cash on The Twilight Zone revival energy.
The 'fake hospital as prison' premise directly echoes real MKUltra interrogation experiments and 1960s spy fiction like The Prisoner.
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