The Longest Day
- Released on
War, Action, Drama
•- Runtime
- 178 mins
(919 votes)
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"
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"
Cast
- Henry Fonda
- John Wayne
- Robert Mitchum
- Robert Ryan
- Eddie Albert
- Paul Anka
- Arletty
- Jean-Louis Barrault
- Richard Beymer
- Hans Christian Blech
- Bourvil
- Richard Burton
- Wolfgang Büttner
- Red Buttons
- Pauline Carton
- Sean Connery
- Ray Danton
- Irina Demick
- Fred Dur
- Fabian
- Mel Ferrer
- Steve Forrest
- Gert Fröbe
- Leo Genn
- John Gregson
- Paul Hartmann
- Peter Helm
- Werner Hinz
- Donald Houston
- Jeffrey Hunter
- Karl John
- Curd Jürgens
- Alexander Knox
- Peter Lawford
- Fernand Ledoux
- Christian Marquand
- Dewey Martin
- Roddy McDowall
- Michael Medwin
- Sal Mineo
- Kenneth More
- Richard Münch
- Edmond O'Brien
- Leslie Phillips
- Wolfgang Preiss
- Ron Randell
- Madeleine Renaud
- Georges Rivière
- Norman Rossington
- Tommy Sands
- George Segal
- Jean Servais
- Rod Steiger
- Richard Todd
- Tom Tryon
- Peter van Eyck
- Robert Wagner
- Richard Wattis
- Stuart Whitman
- Georges Wilson
- Patrick Barr
- Lyndon Brook
- John Crawford
- Armin Dahlen
- Mark Damon
- Richard Dawson
- Eugene Deckers
- Gil Delamare
- Frank Finlay
- Harry Fowler
- Bernard Fox
- Robert Freitag
- Bernard Fresson
- Lutz Gabor
- Arnold Gelderman
- Harold Goodwin
- Walter Gotell
- Henry Grace
- Clément Harari
- Ruth Hausmeister
- Jack Hedley
- Michael Hinz
- Walter Horsbrugh
- Til Kiwe
- Harry Landis
- Wolfgang Lukschy
- Victor Maddern
- Howard Marion-Crawford
- Neil McCallum
- John Meillon
- Kurt Meisel
- Gérard Moisan
- Tony Mordente
- Bill Nagy
- Rainer Penkert
- Malte Petzel
- John Phillips
- Siân Phillips
- Maurice Poli
- Hartmut Reck
- Trevor Reid
- Heinz Reincke
- Alexandre Renaud
- Paul Edwin Roth
- Ernst Schröder
- Dietmar Schönherr
- Heinz Spitzner
- Nicholas Stuart
- Hans Söhnker
- Alice Tissot
- Michel Tureau
- Roland Urban
- Vicco von Bülow
- Joe Warfield
- Dominique Zardi
Director
- Ken Annakin
- Bernhard Wicki
- Andrew Marton
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Gerd Oswald
Producers
- Darryl F. Zanuck
Screenwriter
- Cornelius Ryan
