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The Longest Day (1962)

The Longest Day (1962)

Action Drama War

THE INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIMED HIT JUST AS IT WAS SHOWN IN THE MAJOR CAPITALS OF THE WORLD!

Release Date: 1962, September 25
Directors: Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton
Countries: United States of America
Production: Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 20th Century Fox
Cast: Leslie Phillips, Maurice Poli, Robert Ryan, Henry Fonda, Bernard Fox, Wolfgang Lukschy, Siân Phillips, Frank Finlay, Christian Marquand, Harry Landis, George Segal, Sean Connery

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"

Keywords:

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