The Longest Day (1962)2h58
War · Drama · History
Director Ken Annakin (7.0 avg)
Also directed Swiss Family Robinson, Battle of the Bulge, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes, and 44 more
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
John Wayne
Robert Mitchum
Henry Fonda
Richard Burton
Sean Connery
Leslie Phillips
Robert Ryan
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