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"
John Wayne
as Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Robert Mitchum
as Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
Henry Fonda
as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Richard Burton
as Flying Officer David Campbell
Sean Connery
as Pvt. Flanagan
Leslie Phillips
as RAF Officer Mac
Robert Ryan
as Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
Paul Anka
as U.S. Army Ranger
Wolfgang Büttner
as Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel
Mel Ferrer
as Maj. Gen. Robert Haines
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...