The Longest Day

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(987 votes)

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"

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

War,

Action,

Drama

Duration:

178 minutes

Year:

1962

Director:

Ken Annakin

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Company:

Darryl F. Zanuck Productions,

20th Century Fox

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

Crew:
Samuel E. Beetley

Editor

Ken Annakin

Director

Jean Bourgoin

Director of Photography

Bernhard Wicki

Director

Andrew Marton

Director