The Longest Day1962
Director
Screenplay
Cornelius Ryan
Actors
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 178 Minutes
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About the film
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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That grants legendary status. Bravo!
That grants legendary status. Bravo!
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