The Longest Day (1962)

Movie Details

Original Title The Longest Day

Original Language EN

Budget $10,000,000

Revenue $50,100,000

Status Released

Popularity 2.3

Cast

John Wayne

Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort

Popularity: 1.7

Robert Mitchum

Brig. Gen. Norman Cota

Popularity: 5.6

Henry Fonda

Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Popularity: 2.6

Richard Burton

Flying Officer David Campbell

Popularity: 1.3

Sean Connery

Pvt. Flanagan

Popularity: 2.0

Leslie Phillips

RAF Officer Mac

Popularity: 10.6

Robert Ryan

Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin

Popularity: 2.7

Paul Anka

U.S. Army Ranger

Popularity: 4.4

Wolfgang Büttner

Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel

Popularity: 0.3

Mel Ferrer

Maj. Gen. Robert Haines

Popularity: 5.0

Ray Danton

Capt. Frank

Popularity: 0.7

Peter Lawford

Lord Lovat

Popularity: 1.2

Key Crew

Editor Samuel E. Beetley

Director Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton

Screenplay Cornelius Ryan

Producer Darryl F. Zanuck

Cinematography Henri Persin, Pierre Levent

Writer Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall

Production

Darryl F. Zanuck Productions

20th Century Fox

Videos & Trailers

John Landis on THE LONGEST DAY

Featurette

The Longest Day trailer

Trailer

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Keywords

steel helmet resistance allies world war ii normandy, france based on true story d-day historical fiction soldier dramatic commanding

Reviews from TMDB

John Chard 8/10

Jun 22, 2019

For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day. The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view. The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French gets an all star produ ... Read more

CinemaSerf 7/10

Jun 3, 2024

John Wayne may have featured just slightly more than anyone else in this drama, but it's very much an ensemble effort that delivers a film with a great deal of authenticity to it. It's all set around the day of the D-Day landings in 1944. The weather on England's south coast was, in the words of the ... Read more