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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"
Theatrical
Oct 4, 1962
Box Office
$50.1M
Budget
$10.0M
Return
5.0x
DVD / Blu-ray
Nov 7, 2000
Theaters
1
Directors
Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton
Writer
Cornelius Ryan
Producers
Darryl F. Zanuck, Elmo Williams
Music
Maurice Jarre
Studio
Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 20th Century Fox
Quotes
See all →Urgent Orders Amidst Chaos
Major Waltz
Colonel am I glad to see you!
LTC Benjamin Vandervoort
Those bodies. Get those bodies down. What are you doing leaving them up there like that? Get them down!
[points to the dead paratroopers]
Waltz
Of course, sir but we were under fire -
Vandervoort
I know you have, but I don't care, get them down!! Down! I don't want those boys left up there!
Waltz
Take a detail, cut those bodies down, at once.
[to soldier]
Soldier
Yes sir.
[leaves]
Rallying Call for the Fighting 29th
BG Norm Cota
Now listen to me, all of you. You guys got to snap out of it. We're getting off of here, we're going inland.
[walks alongside troopers]
Soldier
What about weapons, General? Most of my men lost everything they had. They're not afraid to fight, but they gotta have something to fight with!
Cota
Strip the dead and the wounded. Pick up anything that'll shoot. I don't have to tell you the score, you all know it. Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: Those that are already dead and those that are gonna die, now get off your butts! You guys are the Fighting 29th!
Under Fire: A Critical Situation Unfolds
Oberstleutnant Ocker
Pluskat? Pluskat, can you hear me?! What's the matter with you?? Pluskat, what's going on there??Major Pluskat: Are you deaf?! Can't you - - Dammit, can't you hear for yourself?!? Yes! We're under fire! Yeah - under fire!! Those five thousand ships the Allies couldn't possibly have, as you say - they've got em! Yeah, they've got em!!
[a blast holes the bunker roof]
The Price of Liberty in Combat
Bridge Officer
Attention, attention. Admiral Jaujard.
RADM Robert Jaujard
Soon we shall engage in combat. In order to defeat the enemy, we must fire on our homeland. This is the price of liberty. Vive le France!
[addressing Free French forces]
Cast
Full credits →J
John Wayne
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
R
Robert Mitchum
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
H
Henry Fonda
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
R
Richard Burton
Flight Officer David Campbell
S
Sean Connery
Pvt. Flanagan
L
Leslie Phillips
RAF Officer Mac
R
Robert Ryan
Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
P
Paul Anka
U.S. Army Ranger
W
Wolfgang Büttner
Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel
M
Mel Ferrer
Maj. Gen. Robert Haines
R
Ray Danton
Capt. Frank
P
Peter Lawford
Lord Lovat
E
Eddie Albert
Col. Thompson
A
Arletty
Madame Barrault
J
Jean-Louis Barrault
Father Louis Roulland
R
Richard Beymer
Pvt. Dutch Schultz
H
Hans Christian Blech
Maj. Werner Pluskat
B
Bourvil
Mayor of Colleville
R
Red Buttons
Pvt. John Steele
P
Pauline Carton
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