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The Longest Day

Release Date:October 4, 1962

Running Time:178 min

Genres:Drama, Action, War

Directors

Ken Annakin Bernhard Wicki Andrew Marton

Cast

John Wayne Robert Mitchum Henry Fonda Richard Burton Sean Connery Leslie Phillips Robert Ryan Paul Anka Wolfgang Büttner Mel Ferrer Ray Danton Peter Lawford

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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"

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