
The Longest Day (1962)
Overview
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 Info
Budget | $10,000,000.00 |
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Revenue | $50,100,000.00 |
Original Language | en |
Popularity | 1.8258651785714284 |
Directed By
Ken Annakin
Andrew Marton
Bernhard Wicki
Crew
Ken Annakin
Andrew Marton
Cornelius Ryan
Darryl F. Zanuck
Maurice Jarre
Jean Bourgoin
Walter Wottitz
Samuel E. Beetley
Cornelius Ryan
Bernhard Wicki
Maude Spector
Léon Barsacq
Ted Haworth
Vincent Korda
Johnny Borgese
Elmo Williams
Gabriel Béchir
Henry Wise
Jean Herman
Gerd Oswald
Henry Sokal Jr.
Elmo Williams
Karl Baumgartner
Joseph de Bretagne
Gerald Endler
Karl Helmer
Augie Lohman
R.A. MacDonald
Fernando Pérez
Alex Weldon
Paul Wurtzel
Wally Veevers
Ken Buckle
Yvan Chiffre
Jack Cooper
Gil Delamare
Jean-Pierre Janic
Gérard Moisan
Joe Powell
Nosher Powell
Alexandre Renaud
John Sullivan
Lionel Vitrant
Ian Yule
Jean Fouchet
Bob Cuff
David S. Horsley
Pierre Levent
Henri Persin
Vincent Rossell
Guy Tabary
John McCorry
Romain Gary
Lucie Lichtig
David Pursall
Erich Maria Remarque
Jack Seddon
Frank Khoury
Romain Gary
James Jones
David Pursall
Jack Seddon
Paul Anka
Mitch Miller
Joseph de Bretagne
Jacques Maumont
William Robert Sivel
Bernard Farrel
Tom Pevsner
Louis Pitzele
Gérard Renateau
Jean Fouchet
Günther Blumentritt
James Gavin
John Howard
Philippe Kieffer
Pierre Koenig
Helmuth Lang
The Earl of Lovat
Frederick Morgan
Max Pemsel
Werner Pluskat
Josef Priller
Lucie Maria Rommel
Friedrich Ruge
Jean Barral
Roger Bligh
Willard L. Bushy
Hubert Deschard
A. J. Hillebrand
James R. Johnson
Fernand Prevost
E. C. Peake
Albert Saby
Joseph B. Seay
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