The Longest Day
Movie
Type
1962
Year
2h 58m
Runtime
★ 7.5
Rating
Drama / History / War
Genre
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"
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Cast
Henry Fonda
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt jr.
Robert Mitchum
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
John Wayne
Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Richard Burton
Flight Officer David Campbell
Curd Jürgens
Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt
Eddie Albert
Col. Thompson
Paul Anka
U.S. Army Ranger
Arletty
Madame Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault
Father Louis Roulland
Richard Beymer
Pvt. Dutch Schultz
Hans Christian Blech
Maj. Werner Pluskat
Bourvil
Le maire de Colleville