Release Date
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Original Release
September 25, 1962
2h 58m
The Longest Day (1962)
â 7.6178 min
Overview
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"
Director
Ken Annakin
Department: Directing
âPopularity: 0.7
Cast
John Wayne
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
â2.7
Robert Mitchum
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
â2.2
Henry Fonda
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
â2.4
Richard Burton
Flight Officer David Campbell
â2.0
Sean Connery
Pvt. Flanagan
â3.2
Leslie Phillips
RAF Officer Mac
â0.9
Robert Ryan
Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
â1.2
Paul Anka
U.S. Army Ranger
â1.0
Wolfgang BĂŒttner
Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel
â0.4
Mel Ferrer
Maj. Gen. Robert Haines
â1.3
Genres
WarActionDrama
Production Companies
Darryl F. Zanuck Productions
20th Century Fox
