The Longest Day (1962)

PG09/25/1962War, Action, Drama2h 58m
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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"

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    John Wayne

    Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort

  2. Cast 1

    Robert Mitchum

    Brig. Gen. Norman Cota

  3. Cast 1

    Henry Fonda

    Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

  4. Cast 1

    Richard Burton

    Flying Officer David Campbell

  5. Cast 1

    Sean Connery

    Pvt. Flanagan

  6. Cast 1

    Leslie Phillips

    RAF Officer Mac

  7. Cast 1

    Robert Ryan

    Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin

  8. Cast 1

    Paul Anka

    U.S. Army Ranger

  9. Cast 1

    Wolfgang Büttner

    Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel

For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day. The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view. The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French gets an all star production. One of the great war movie epics, it has all the requisite blunderbuss spectacle and heroism as the Allies invade Normandy. It's not hard to see why it was such a box office winner, sure it's a touch too long given that a lot of characters don't really have much to do, but performances are st...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$10,000,000.00

Revenue $50,100,000.00

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