Genres
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
The Longest Day
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"
Key Crew
Director of Photography: Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz
Screenplay: Cornelius Ryan
Director: Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer: David Pursall, Romain Gary, James Jones, Jack Seddon
Top Cast
Henry Fonda
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
John Wayne
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Robert Mitchum
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
Robert Ryan
Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
Eddie Albert
Col. Thompson
Paul Anka
U.S. Army Ranger
Arletty
Madame Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault
Father Louis Roulland
Videos
The Longest Day trailer
