
The Longest Day
dir. Ken Annakin
77
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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"

Directed byKen Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
StarringJohn Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Leslie Phillips
Written byCornelius Ryan, Romain Gary, James Jones
CinematographyJean Bourgoin
EditingSamuel E. Beetley
MusicMaurice Jarre
The Longest Day
1962 · PG · 2h 58m
War, Action, Drama
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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77
