The Longest Day

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"

Cast

John Wayne

John Wayne

as Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort

Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum

as Brig. Gen. Norman Cota

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Richard Burton

Richard Burton

as Flying Officer David Campbell

Sean Connery

Sean Connery

as Pvt. Flanagan

Leslie Phillips

Leslie Phillips

as RAF Officer Mac

Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan

as Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin

Paul Anka

Paul Anka

as U.S. Army Ranger

Wolfgang Büttner

Wolfgang Büttner

as Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel

Mel Ferrer

Mel Ferrer

as Maj. Gen. Robert Haines

Reviews

John Chard

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 produ...

CinemaSerf

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 the...

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