The Longest Day

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Release date: September 25, 1962
Duration: 178 minutes
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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"

Starring

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Henry Fonda
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
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John Wayne
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
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Robert Mitchum
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
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Robert Ryan
Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
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Eddie Albert
Col. Thompson