The Longest Day
"THE INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIMED HIT JUST AS IT WAS SHOWN IN THE MAJOR CAPITALS OF THE WORLD!"
WarActionDrama
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"
🎬 DirectorKen Annakin
📅 Release1962-09-25
🌍 CountryUnited States of America
🗣 LanguageGerman, French, English
🏢 StudioDarryl F. Zanuck Productions, 20th Century Fox
🗳 Votes1,006
🔥 Popularity4
💰 Budget$10,000,000
💵 Revenue$50,100,000
🎭 Cast
John Wayne
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Robert Mitchum
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
Henry Fonda
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Richard Burton
Flying 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
Eddie Albert
Col. Thompson
Arletty
Madame Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault
Father Louis Roulland
🎥 Crew
Director
Ken Annakin
Director
Andrew Marton
Screenplay
Cornelius Ryan
Producer
Darryl F. Zanuck
Original Music Composer
Maurice Jarre
Director of Photography
Jean Bourgoin
Director of Photography
Walter Wottitz
Editor
Samuel E. Beetley
Novel
Cornelius Ryan
Director
Bernhard Wicki
🖼 Gallery
🏷 Keywords
steel helmetresistancealliesworld war iinormandy, francebased on true storyd-dayhistorical fictionblack and whitesoldierdramaticcommanding
💬 Reviews
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 …
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 us…
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