The Longest Day (1962)

Name: The Longest Day
Director: Andrew Marton
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Released: 1962
Duration: 2 h 58 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Leslie Phillips, Mel Ferrer, Paul Anka

Action Drama War

7.6 (961 votes)

2h 58m

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"