The Longest Day poster
Director Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Darryl F. Zanuck, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki
Writer Jack Seddon, Romain Gary, David Pursall, James Jones
Screenplay Cornelius Ryan

The Longest Day

Release Date: 1962-09-25

Duration: 178 minutes

Synopsis

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"

Casting

  • John Wayne
    Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
  • Sean Connery
    Pvt. Flanagan
  • Roddy McDowall
    Pvt. Morris
  • Leslie Phillips
    RAF Officer Mac
  • Stuart Whitman
    Lt. Sheen
  • Henry Fonda
    Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
  • Robert Mitchum
    Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
  • Paul Anka
    U.S. Army Ranger
  • George Segal
    U.S. Army Ranger
  • Steve Forrest
    Capt. Harding