You’ll probably find this interesting. After watching 24 hours of this I realized that all 24 hours were covered by watching The Longest Day.
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John Wayne
Henry Fonda
Robert Mitchum
Sean Connery
Eddie Albert
Curd Jürgens
Richard Todd
Richard Burton
Peter Lawford
Rod Steiger
Irina Demick
Gert Fröbe
Edmond O'Brien
Kenneth More
Great movie and even greater book.
By the time it was over, I was cheering and crying for soldiers on both sides and booing German Generals and more than 1 Allied General.
John has a long mustache.
Good movie. I recommend the book by Cornelius Ryan. The Last Battle was quite good too.
I love the scene in the movie where the French guy is jumping for joy at the Allies storming the beach and everything around him is getting shelled.
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Thankfully it’s not the version with the German actors speaking English. Much better when they speak their native language.
I love the scene that is POV of the French farmhouse window, looking towards the coast and the German soldier on the mule, toting coffee to the bunkers. Then the shore bombardment begins.
On the topic of WWII, I have been binge-watching “12 O’Clock High,” a tv series from the mid-60s based on the the movie with the same name (great movie, with Gregory Peck). What a great show.
This movie was around 1963 and watching it is burned into memory as a singularly great young boy experience.
I was 11 years old. My parents took me and 5 younger brothers and a sister were packed in like sardines to watch the movie at a drive-in theater.
This was a doubly whammy movie day because the Longest Day was preceded by maybe the best motion picture comedy I ever saw in my life, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Wow, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, and a ton of other comedians teamed up on this one.
It was a long night...
John Wayne’s worst performance and badly miscast.