The Longest Day (DVD)

Technical Information: Duration: 168 minutes Certificate: PG Classification: WAR Cast (just the most famous): Richard Burton .... Flight Officer David Campbell Sean Connery .... Pvt. Flanagan Henry Fonda .... Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Robert Mitchum .... Brig. Gen. Norman Cota Rod Steiger .... Destroyer commander Robert Wagner .... U.S. Army Ranger John Wayne .... Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort About the Film: Now this film is one of a classic war films. It covers the events leading up to and shortly after the Invasion of Normandy during the second world war. ...

What a movie, what a cast. This reasonably accurate look at D-Day and the invasion of Europe serves up history from the perspective of Allied troops, German soldiers and French citizenry. While it is a rather sanitized version of the mayhem that occurs in war—-people get killed cleanly, with virtually no blood; no one loses a limb--it does an excellent job of laying out the events as everyone prepares for the inevitable Allied attack. And while the bulk of this black-and-white film of the landing itself focuses on the Americans and Omaha Beach, the actions of varied forces, from British troopers to the French resistance are depicted in ...

The longest Day is in my opinion one of the best war films ever made. This is Darryl F Zanuck's film, he produced it, and he was one of the five directors. This film had no less than 50 of the greatest stars of that era appearing in it. What's more it was the last film to be made in black and white. This film is actually a massive reconstruction of the events leading to and what happened on the 6th June 1944, when the Allied forces invaded Nazi Europe. The film sticks very closely to the known facts, the film also makes use of photographs and newsreels to relate to countless stories of individual heroism and tragedy. Remember what you are ...