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The Longest Day
Drama film with a runtime of 180 minutes, released in 1962. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each actor speaks in his or her native language with subtitles translating for the benefit of the audience (alternate "takes" were made of each scene with the foreign actors speaking English, but these were seen only during the first network telecast of the film in 1972). The stars are listed alphabetically, with the exception of John Wayne, who as Lt. Colonel Vandervoort gets separate billing. Others in the huge cast include Eddie Albert, Jean-Louis Barrault, Richard Burton, Red Buttons, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Gert Frobe, Curt Jurgens, Peter Lawford, Robert Mitchum, Kenneth More, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Jean Servais, Rod Steiger and Robert Wagner. Paul Anka, who wrote the film's title song, shows up as an Army private. Scenes include the Allies parachuting into Ste. Mere Englise, where the paratroopers were mowed down by German bullets; a real-life sequence wherein the German and Allied troops unwittingly march side by side in the dark of night; and a spectacular three-minute overhead shot of the troops fighting and dying in the streets of Quistreham. The last major black-and-white road-show attraction, The Longest Day made millions, enough to recoup some of the cost of 20th Century Fox's concurrently produced Cleopatra.
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Cast
- Robert Mitchum
- John Wayne
- Henry Fonda
- Richard Burton
- Eddie Albert
- Paul Anka
- Red Buttons
- Sean Connery
- Ray Danton
- Mel Ferrer
- Steve Forrest
- Jeffrey Hunter
- Roddy McDowall
- Kenneth More
- Robert Ryan
- Fabián
- Rod Steiger
- Richard Todd
- Robert Wagner
- Stuart Whitman
- Siân Phillips
- Tommy Sands
- Richard Beymer
- Sal Mineo
- Edmond O'Brien
- Tom Tryon
- Alexander Knox
- Henry Grace
- Mark Damon
- Nick Stuart
- Dewey Martin
- John Crawford
- Ron Randell
- Nicholas Stuart
- John Meillon
- Richard Munch
- Fred Durr
- Peter Lawford
- Leo Genn
- John Gregson
- Jack Hedley
- Michael Medwin
- Norman Rossington
- John Robinson
- Patrick Barr
- Donald Houston
- Trevor Reid
- Leslie Phillips
- Richard Wattis
- Irina Demick
- Bourvil
- Jean-Louis Barrault
- Christian Marquand
- Richard Münch
- Arletty
- Madeleine Renaud
- Georges Rivière
- Georges Wilson
- Jean Servais
- Fernand Ledoux
- Curt Jürgens
- Werner Hinz
- Paul Hartmann
- Peter Van Eyck
- Gert Fröbe
- Hans Christian Blech
- Wolfgang Preiss
- Kurt Meisel
- Heinz Reincke
- Ernst Schroeder
- Wolfgang Lukschy
- Wolfgang Buttner
- Eugene Deckers
- Peter Helm
- Pauline Carton
- Maurice Poli
- Simon Lack
- Louis Mounier
- Howard Marion-Crawford
- Heinz Spitzner
- Robert Freytag
- Ruth Hausmeister
- Michael Hinz
- Frank Finlay
- Paul Roth
- Lyndon Brook
- Karl John
- Dietmar Schönherr
- Rainer Penkert
- Kurt Pecher
- Til Kiwe
- George Segal
- Alice Tissot
- Jo D'Avra
- Daniel Gélin
- Françoise Rosay
- Christopher Lee
- Bill Nagy
- Michael Beint
- Harry Fowler
- Neil McCallum
- Robert Freitag
- Steve Marlow
- Karl Helmer
- Henri Persin
- Robert MacDonald
- Jack Seddon
- Joseph de Bretagne
- Samuel E. Beetley
- Pierre Levent
- James Jones
- David Pursall
- Ted Haworth
- Elmo Williams
- Guy Tabary
- Jean Bourgoin
- Gabriel Bechir
- Mitch Miller
- Walter Wottitz
- William Robert Sivel
- Karl Baumgartner
- Vincent Korda
- Allen Swift
- Cornelius Ryan
- Léon Barsacq
- Augie Lohman
- Jacques Maumont
- Alex Weldon
