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The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944.
The Longest Day: Directed by Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck. With Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault. The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
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- Action, Drama, History
- Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald
- 1962-10-04
20th-Century-Fox producer Darryl F. Zanuck hoped that The Longest Day (1962), a blow-by-blow account of the Allied invasion on D-Day, would be an anti-Hollywood war movie, a picture that would, once and for all, show audiences what war is really like. But Zanuck, who may well have been viewing the picture as his swan song, knew that an ...
- Ken Annakin
- John Wayne
The Longest Day (1962) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Sep 26, 2023 · The 1962 feature, directed by Darryl Zanuck and starring the likes of John Wayne, Richard Todd and Henry Fonda, was, up until the release of Schindler’s List (1993), the highest-grossing black-and-white film. Here are some little-known facts about The Longest Day, for those of you who want to impress your friends at your next dinner party.
In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Despite bad weather, General Eisenhower gives the okay and the Allies land at Normandy. General Norma Cota (Robert Mitchum) travels with his men onto Omaha Beach.
In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Despite bad weather, General Eisenhower gives the okay and the Allies land at Normandy. General Norma ...
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- War, History, Drama
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