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Release Date: 1962

Cast: Richard Todd, Irina Demick, Bourvil, Sal Mineo, Ray Danton, Robert Ryan, George Segal, Kenneth More, Mel Ferrer, Edmond O'Brien, Peter Lawford, Robert Mitchum ...MORE

Cast: Richard Todd, Irina Demick, Bourvil, Sal Mineo, Ray Danton, Robert Ryan, George Segal, Kenneth More, Mel Ferrer, Edmond O'Brien, Peter Lawford, Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Arletty, Jeffrey Hunter, Henry Fonda, Paul Anka, Richard Burton, John Wayne, Red Buttons, Hans Christian Blech, Rod Steiger, Eddie Albert, Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Steve Forrest, Pauline Carton, Richard Beymer, Jean-Louis Barrault ...LESS

Categories: Movies, History, Action, Epic, War film

The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck paid the author of the book, Cornelius Ryan, $175,000 for the screen rights to produce the film. The film was adapted from the book by Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall, Jack Seddon, and the author himself. It was directed by Ken Annakin (British and French exteriors), Andrew Marton (American exteriors), Gerd Oswald (parachute drop scene), Bernhard Wicki (German scenes), and Darryl F.... MORE

The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck paid the author of the book, Cornelius Ryan, $175,000 for the screen rights to produce the film. The film was adapted from the book by Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall, Jack Seddon, and the author himself. It was directed by Ken Annakin (British and French exteriors), Andrew Marton (American exteriors), Gerd Oswald (parachute drop scene), Bernhard Wicki (German scenes), and Darryl F. Zanuck (uncredited). Many of the military consultants and advisors who helped with the film's production were actual participants in the action on D-Day, and are portrayed in the film. The producers drew them from both sides; Allied and Axis. Among them are Günther Blumentritt (a former German general), James M. Gavin (an American general), Frederick Morgan (Deputy Chief of Staff at SHAEF), John Howard (who led the airborne assault on the Pegasus Bridge), Lord Lovat (who commanded the 1st Special Service Brigade), Philippe Kieffer (who led his men in the assault on Ouistreham), Pierre Koenig (who LESS