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. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Released: 1962
Casts:
Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Richard Beymer, Hans Christian Blech, Bourvil, Wolfgang Büttner, Red Buttons, Sean Connery, Ray Danton, Pauline Carton, Armin Dahlen, Mark Damon, Richard Dawson, Irina Demick, Fred Dur, Fabian, Mel Ferrer, Frank Finlay, Steve Forrest, Bernard Fox, Robert Freitag, Bernard Fresson, Gert Fröbe, Lutz Gabor, Arnold Gelderman, Leo Genn, Harold Goodwin, Walter Gotell, Henry Grace, John Gregson, Clément Harari, Paul Hartmann, Ruth Hausmeister, Jack Hedley, Michael Hinz, Werner Hinz, Donald Houston, Jeffrey Hunter, Karl John, Til Kiwe, Alexander Knox, Peter Lawford, Wolfgang Lukschy, Christian Marquand, Roddy McDowall, Sal Mineo, Kenneth More, Richard Münch, Edmond O'Brien, Leslie Phillips, Wolfgang Preiss, Heinz Reincke, Madeleine Renaud, Robert Ryan, Dietmar Schönherr, Ernst Schröder, George Segal, Jean Servais, Hans Söhnker, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd, Tom Tryon, Peter van Eyck, Vicco von Bülow, Robert Wagner, Stuart Whitman