The Longest Day

Plot

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"

Genres

War, Drama, History

Year

1962

Runtime

178 min

Director

Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton

Cast

John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Leslie Phillips, Robert Ryan, Paul Anka, Wolfgang Büttner, Mel Ferrer

TMDB rating

7.6 / 10

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