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"| Status: | Released (1962-09-25) |
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| Awards: | Won 2 Oscars. 8 wins & 6 nominations total |
| Screen: | Cornelius Ryan, Romain Gary, James Jones |
| Productions: | Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 20th Century Fox |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | Deutsch, English, Français |
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- 10158: Robert Mitchum - Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
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- 77260: Paul Anka - U.S. Army Ranger
- 25154: Arletty - Madame Barrault
Crews
- 35318: Ken Annakin - Director - Directing
- 57142: Andrew Marton - Director - Directing
- 46470: Cornelius Ryan - Screenplay - Writing
- 8502: Darryl F. Zanuck - Producer - Production
- 2704: Maurice Jarre - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 32293: Jean Bourgoin - Director of Photography - Camera
- 32097: Walter Wottitz - Director of Photography - Camera
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Reviews
John Chard
Review text:
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 a ....
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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 ....
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