The Longest Day
1962 · Movie · 2h 58m · PG
WarActionDrama
"THE INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIMED HIT JUST AS IT WAS SHOWN IN THE MAJOR CAPITALS OF THE WORLD!"
Overview
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"
Ratings
IMDb
7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes
83%
Metacritic
75/100
Key crew
- Ken AnnakinDirector
- Andrew MartonDirector
- Cornelius RyanScreenplay
- Maurice JarreOriginal Music Composer
- Bernhard WickiDirector
- Romain GaryWriter
- James JonesWriter
- David PursallWriter
- Jack SeddonWriter
Cast
- John WayneLt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
- Robert MitchumBrig. Gen. Norman Cota
- Henry FondaBrig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
- Richard BurtonFlight Officer David Campbell
- Sean ConneryPvt. Flanagan
- Leslie PhillipsRAF Officer Mac
- Robert RyanBrig. Gen. James M. Gavin
- Paul AnkaU.S. Army Ranger
- Wolfgang BüttnerMaj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel
- Mel FerrerMaj. Gen. Robert Haines
- Ray DantonCapt. Frank
- Peter LawfordLord Lovat
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Themes
steel helmetresistancealliesworld war iinormandy, francebased on true storyd-dayhistorical fictionblack and whitesoldierdramaticcommanding