The Longest Day

7.6 / 10

(902 votes)

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"

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

War,

Action,

Drama

Duration:

178 minutes

Year:

1962

Director:

Andrew Marton

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Company:

Darryl F. Zanuck Productions,

20th Century Fox

Budget:

$10,000,000

Revenue:

$50,100,000

Cast:
Henry Fonda

Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

John Wayne

Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort

Robert Mitchum

Brig. Gen. Norman Cota

Robert Ryan

Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin

Eddie Albert

Col. Thompson

Crew:
Cornelius Ryan

Screenplay

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

Jean Bourgoin

Director of Photography

Andrew Marton

Director

Bernhard Wicki

Director