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The Longest Day poster
1962 2h 58m

The Longest Day

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.

Directing 3

Ken Annakin
Director
Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Andrew Marton
Director
Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary)
Bernhard Wicki
Director
St. Pölten, Austria

Writing 5

C
Screenplay
Romain Gary
Writer
Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
James Jones
Writer
Robinson, Illinois, USA
D
Writer
Warwickshire, England, UK
J
Writer

Production 1

Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer
Wahoo, Nebraska, USA