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The Longest Day(Movie, 1962)

PG
| 2h 58min | Genres: War, Action, Drama
The Longest DayRating: 3.8/5 (with 398398 votes)
The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic historical war drama film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name about the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox, and is directed by Ken Annakin (British and French exteriors), Andrew Marton (American exteriors), and Bernhard Wicki (German scenes). The screenplay was written by Ryan, with additional material written by Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall and Jack Seddon. The film features a large international ensemble cast that includes John Wayne, Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Robert Mitchum, ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Longest Day

Silver Nugget for The Best Foreign Film Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-And-White Academy Award for Best Special Effects National Board of Review: Top Ten Films National Board of Review Award for Best Film Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-And-White Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White Academy Award for Best Special Effects

About 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".

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Paris
Based on the work of: Cornelius Ryan ("The Longest Day")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR)
Translated into 26 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 10/04/1962 (World premiere: 09/25/1962)
Appearing Characters: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Walter Bedell Smith, Omar Bradley, Alan Goodrich Kirk, Raymond O. Barton, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Norman Cota, James M. Gavin, Eugene Mead Caffey, Benjamin H. Vandervoort, John Steele, airman, Bernard Montgomery, Bertram Home Ramsay, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, George Creasy, Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, James Stagg, Colin Maud, John Howard, Bill Millin, Philippe Kieffer, Guy de Montlaur, Louise Boitard, Gerd von Rundstedt, Erwin Rommel, Alfred Jodl, Hans von Salmuth, Günther Blumentritt, Erich Marcks, Hans Speidel, Max-Josef Pemsel, Josef Priller, Wilhelm Mohnke, Werner Pluskat, Lucia Maria Rommel, Manfred Rommel
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Paul Anka, Fabian, Richard Beymer, Mel Ferrer, Jeffrey Hunter, Sal Mineo, Roddy McDowall, Stuart Whitman, Steve Forrest, Eddie Albert, Edmond O'Brien, Kenneth More, Peter Lawford, Richard Todd, Sean Connery, Irina Demick, Bourvil, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Paul Hartmann, Curd Jürgens, Peter van Eyck, Alexander Knox, George Segal, Christian Marquand, Wolfgang Preiss, Red Buttons, Ray Danton, Gert Fröbe, Hans Christian Blech, Wolfgang Büttner, Pauline Carton, Werner Hinz, Richard Münch, Paul Edwin Roth, Georges Wilson, John Crawford, Henry Grace, Michael Hinz, Wolfgang Lukschy, Heinz Reincke, Dietmar Schönherr, Ernst Schröder, Karl John, Hans Söhnker, Loriot, Leo Genn, John Gregson, Donald Houston, Fernand Ledoux, Dewey Martin, Leslie Phillips, Ron Randell, Madeleine Renaud, Georges Rivière, Tommy Sands, Jean Servais, Tom Tryon, Richard Wattis, Daniel Gélin, Françoise Rosay, Patrick Barr, Yves Barsacq, Geoffrey Bayldon, Jean Champion, Yvan Chiffre, Gary Collins, Armin Dahlen, Mark Damon, Michel Duchaussoy, Frank Finlay, Harry Fowler, Bernard Fox, Robert Freitag, Bernard Fresson, Harold Goodwin, Walter Gotell, Clément Harari, Jack Hedley, Mickey Knox, Simon Lack, Rudy Lenoir, Edward Meeks, John Meillon, Kurt Meisel, Bill Nagy, Rainer Penkert, Siân Phillips, Maurice Poli, Hartmut Reck, Marcel Rouzé, Alice Tissot, Michel Tureau, Lionel Vitrant, Dominique Zardi, Bob Steele, William Shatner, Nicholas Stuart, Don Adams, Tony Mordente, Trevor Reid, John Robinson, Louis Mounier, Walter Horsbrugh, Howard Marion-Crawford, Lyndon Brook, Richard Dawson, Norman Rossington, Michael Medwin, Leslie de Laspee, Victor Maddern, Bryan Coleman, Eugene Deckers, Ruth Hausmeister
Screenwriter: Romain Gary, Cornelius Ryan, James Jones, David Pursall, Noël Coward, Jack Seddon
Film Editor: Samuel E. Beetley
Director of Photography: Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz
Composer: Maurice Jarre
Production Designer: Ted Haworth
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"El día más largo del siglo"
"Der Längste Tag"
"Le Jour le Plus Long"
"The D. Day"
"Η Μεγαλύτερη Ημέρα του Πολέμου"
"Η Πιο Μεγάλη Μέρα του Πολέμου"
"碧血長天"
"Najduži dan"
"Il giorno più lungo"
"Ilgiausia diena"
"Најдужи дан"
"Najdaljši dan"
"Najdlhsí den"
"Самый длинный день"
Budget: 10,000,000 USD
Revenue: 50,100,000 USD (= 501%)
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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