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5 days ago · At the time, both 20th Century Fox and Darryl F. Zanuck were in freefall: the studio lost more than $60 million between 1961 and 1962 – with hopes now pinned on the spiralling-out-of-control...
6 days ago · Producer Darryl F Zanuck’s grandiose, almost three-hour (contemporary critics dubbed it “the longest night”) recreation of the landings starred just about every A-list Hollywood and British...
5 days ago · Former 20th Century Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck saw this film as a way to revitalize his career and planned to produce it independently. The goal of the film was realism, and his crew searched the globe for uniforms and military equipment to recreate the invasion.
5 days ago · From Henry Koster’s romantic melodrama D-Day the Sixth of June (1956) through to Julius Avery’s zombie-horror actioner Overlord (2018), filmmakers have remained understandably fascinated with the spectacle and human drama of the Normandy landings.
5 days ago · From Henry Koster's romantic melodrama D-Day the Sixth of June (1956) through to Julius Avery's zombie-horror actioner Overlord (2018), filmmakers have remained understandably fascinated with the...
4 days ago · For producer Darryl F. Zanuck, The Longest Day was a matter of victory or defeat. “Either I will go broke, or make the greatest picture ever,” he said. It would prove victorious: it helped...
5 days ago · 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...
