The Longest Day
75.76%
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September 25, 1962
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War, Action, Drama
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"
Featured Crew
Ken Annakin
Director
Andrew Marton
Director
Cornelius Ryan
Screenplay
Cast
Henry Fonda
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
John Wayne
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Robert Mitchum
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
Robert Ryan
Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
Eddie Albert
Col. Thompson