Overview - The Longest Day

Date of release

Genres

  • War
  • Action
  • Drama

Runtime: 178 minutes

Homepage: The Longest Day

Budget

$10,000,000.00

Revenue

$50,100,000.00

Spoken Languages

  • Deutsch
  • Français
  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Darryl F. Zanuck Productions

    Production country

  • Name: 20th Century Fox

    Production country United States of America

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"

Cast

  • Name: John Wayne

    Character: Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort

    Popularity: 3.0976

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  • Name: Robert Mitchum

    Character: Brig. Gen. Norman Cota

    Popularity: 1.4142

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  • Name: Henry Fonda

    Character: Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

    Popularity: 1.4452

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  • Name: Richard Burton

    Character: Flying Officer David Campbell

    Popularity: 1.3611

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  • Name: Sean Connery

    Character: Pvt. Flanagan

    Popularity: 5.0697

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  • Name: Leslie Phillips

    Character: RAF Officer Mac

    Popularity: 2.2154

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  • Name: Robert Ryan

    Character: Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin

    Popularity: 0.6479

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  • Name: Paul Anka

    Character: U.S. Army Ranger

    Popularity: 1.0833

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