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The Longest Day

The Longest Day

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 25, 1962

Runtime

2h 58m

Genres

War, Action, Drama

User Score

76%

Original Title

The Longest Day

Production Companies

Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 20th Century Fox

Director

Ken Annakin

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$50,100,000

Description

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"