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