The Longest Day
Release Date: 1962-09-25
Rating : 7.59/10
Duration : 178 minutes
Genres : War, Action, Drama
Director : Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton
Writer : Cornelius Ryan, David Pursall, Romain Gary, James Jones, Jack Seddon
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
Robert Mitchum
Henry Fonda
Richard Burton
Sean Connery
Leslie Phillips