The Longest Day (1962)
THE INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIMED HIT JUST AS IT WAS SHOWN IN THE MAJOR CAPITALS OF THE WORLD!
Director: Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton · Writers: Cornelius Ryan, David Pursall, Romain Gary, James Jones
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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Director
Ken Annakin
Bernhard Wicki
Andrew Marton
Cast
John Wayne
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort 
Robert Mitchum
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota 
Henry Fonda
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. 
Richard Burton
Flight Officer David Campbell 
Sean Connery
Pvt. Flanagan 
Leslie Phillips
RAF Officer Mac 
Robert Ryan
Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin 
Paul Anka
U.S. Army Ranger 
Wolfgang Büttner
Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel 
Mel Ferrer
Maj. Gen. Robert Haines 
Ray Danton
Capt. Frank 
Peter Lawford
Lord Lovat User Reviews (2)
For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day. The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view. The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French gets an all star production. One of the great war movie epics, it has all the requisite blunderbuss spectacle and heroism as the Allies invade Normandy. It's not hard to see why it was such a box office winner, sure it's a touch too long given that a lot of characters don't really have much to do, but performances are strong and the slices of humour off set some of the national stereotypes on show. One has to marvel at the ambition of the production, Fox Studios boss Darryl F. Zanuck spent $10 million to get it onto the big screen, and it shows. Narrative is split into three parts, the preparation, the operation…
John Wayne may have featured just slightly more than anyone else in this drama, but it's very much an ensemble effort that delivers a film with a great deal of authenticity to it. It's all set around the day of the D-Day landings in 1944. The weather on England's south coast was, in the words of their meteorologist, "akin to mid-winter". Delay meant more frustrations for everyone so off they go using just about every form of transportation available - gliders, planes, tanks, landing craft - you name it, as a quarter of a million men (plus lots of sparkling "Tommies") headed to Normandy. Meantime, we also see a fairly plausible perspective from the Nazi side of the channel. They've been preparing for an invasion for a while, but are unsure where and when it will come and the apprehension is beginning to take it toll. What's also clear is that the High Command are, themselves, losing faith…
