The Longest Day
THE INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIMED HIT JUST AS IT WAS SHOWN IN THE MAJOR CAPITALS OF THE WORLD!
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"
Director Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
Trailer
Cast
Norman Rossington
Pvt. Clough
Richard Todd
Maj. John Howard
Michael Hinz
Manfred Rommel (uncredited)
Dietmar Schönherr
Luftwaffe Major (uncredited)
Guy Marchand
Parachutist (uncredited)
Roddy McDowall
Pvt. Morris
George Segal
U.S. Army Ranger
Jean Servais
RAdm. Janjard
Paul Anka
U.S. Army Ranger
Wolfgang Büttner
Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel
Peter Helm
Young GI
Trevor Reid
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery (uncredited)
Michel Tureau
French Commando (uncredited)
Yves Barsacq
Man at Resistance HQ (uncredited)
Mel Ferrer
Maj. Gen. Robert Haines
Sal Mineo
Pvt. Martini
Leo Genn
Brig. Gen. Edwin P. Parker Jr.
Richard Münch
Gen. Erich Marcks
Edmond O'Brien
Gen. Raymond D. Barton
Bernard Fresson
French Commando (uncredited)
Harry Landis
British Soldier (uncredited)
Heinz Reincke
Col. Josef 'Pips' Priller (uncredited)
Jeffrey Hunter
Sgt. (later Lt.) John H. Fuller
Georges Wilson
Alexandre Renaud
Frank Finlay
Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
John Phillips
Roosevelt's Aide (uncredited)
Joe Warfield
US Army Medic (uncredited)
Richard Burton
Flight Officer David Campbell
Bill Nagy
Major in Ste. Mère-Eglise (uncredited)
Heinz Spitzner
Lt. Col. Helmuth Meyer (uncredited)
Geoffrey Bayldon
Officer at Eisenhower Briefing (uncredited)
Ruth Hausmeister
Frau Maria Rommel (uncredited)
Donald Houston
RAF Pilot
Victor Maddern
Camp Cook (uncredited)
Fabian
U.S. Army Ranger
Werner Hinz
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Curd Jürgens
Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt
Mickey Knox
US Airman with Bandaged Eye (uncredited)
Peter van Eyck
Lt. Col. Ocker
Kenneth More
Capt. Colin Maud
Robert Wagner
U.S. Army Ranger
Stuart Whitman
Lt. Sheen
Robert Freitag
Meyer's Aide (uncredited)
Hans Söhnker
German Officer (uncredited)
Gert Fröbe
Sgt. Kaffekanne
Rod Steiger
Destroyer Commander
Lucien Camiret
Bit Part (uncredited)
Clément Harari
Minor Role (uncredited)
Robert Mitchum
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
Hans Christian Blech
Maj. Werner Pluskat
Rudy Lenoir
German Soldier (uncredited)
Arletty
Madame Barrault
Jack Hedley
RAF Briefing Officer (uncredited)
Walter Horsbrugh
Adm. Creasey (uncredited)
Rainer Penkert
Lt. Fritz Theen (uncredited)
Leslie Phillips
RAF Officer Mac
Richard Dawson
British Soldier (uncredited)
Gary Collins
Officer on Bridge Behind Destroyer Commander (uncredited)
Colin Drake
Zanuck (uncredited)
Pauline Carton
Maid
Harold Goodwin
British Soldier (uncredited)
Neil McCallum
Canadian Doctor (uncredited)
Peter Lawford
Lord Lovat
Karl John
Gen. Wolfgang Häger
Christian Marquand
Cmdr. Philippe Kieffer - Commando Leader
John Robinson
Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsay (uncredited)
Fernand Ledoux
Louis
Wolfgang Lukschy
Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl (uncredited)
Dominique Zardi
French Spitfire Pilot (uncredited)
Sean Connery
Pvt. Flanagan
Steve Forrest
Capt. Harding
Armin Dahlen
Blumentritt's Adjutant (uncredited)
Robert Ryan
Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
Richard Beymer
Pvt. Dutch Schultz
Alice Tissot
Housekeeper (uncredited)
Loriot
Pemsel's Adjutant (uncredited)
Yvan Chiffre
Paratrooper (uncredited)
Edward Meeks
US Army Soldier Talking to Gen. Cota (uncredited)
Maurice Poli
Jean (uncredited)
Michel Duchaussoy
Minor Role (uncredited)
Henry Fonda
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Bourvil
Mayor of Colleville
Madeleine Renaud
Mother Superior
Georges Rivière
Sgt. Guy de Montlaur
Jean Champion
French Resistance Fighter (uncredited)
Paul Hartmann
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
Ron Randell
Joe Williams
Patrick Barr
Group Capt. J.N. Stagg (uncredited)
John Crawford
Col. Caffey (uncredited)
Kurt Meisel
Capt. Ernst During (uncredited)
Patrick Jordan
Lt. Richard Todd (uncredited)
Lionel Vitrant
First Landed Paratrooper in Garden (uncredited)
Tom Tryon
Lt. Wilson
John Gregson
British Padre
Tommy Sands
U.S. Army Ranger
Gil Delamare
French Commando (uncredited)
Alexander Knox
Maj. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
Mark Damon
Pvt. Harris (uncredited)
Eugene Deckers
German Soldier (uncredited)
Tony Mordente
Cook (uncredited)
Bryan Coleman
Ronald Callen (uncredited)
Irina Demick
Janine Boitard
Bernard Fox
Pvt. Hutchinson (uncredited)
Walter Gotell
German Soldier (uncredited)
Til Kiwe
Capt. Helmuth Lang (uncredited)
Paul Edwin Roth
Col. Schiller (uncredited)
Marcel Rouzé
Minor Role (uncredited)
Dewey Martin
Sgt. Wilder
Michael Medwin
Pvt. Watney
Wolfgang Preiss
Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
Siân Phillips
WRNS Officer (uncredited)
Ernst Schröder
Gen. Hans von Salmuth (uncredited)
Al Mulock
Bit Part (uncredited)
John Wayne
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Ray Danton
Capt. Frank
Eddie Albert
Col. Thompson
Lyndon Brook
Lt. Walsh (uncredited)
Harry Fowler
British Paratrooper (uncredited)
Richard Wattis
British Paratrooper
Howard Marion-Crawford
Glider Doctor (uncredited)
John Meillon
RAdm. Alan G. Kirk (uncredited)
Hartmut Reck
Sgt. Bernhard Bergsdorf (uncredited)
Jean-Louis Barrault
Father Louis Roulland
Red Buttons
Pvt. John Steele