Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 178 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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"
- steel helmet
- resistance
- allies
- world war ii
- normandy
- france
- based on true story
- d-day
- historical fiction
- black and white
- soldier
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
John Wayne
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Robert Mitchum
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
Henry Fonda
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Richard Burton
Flight Officer David Campbell
- Sean Connery — Pvt. Flanagan
- Leslie Phillips — RAF Officer Mac
- Robert Ryan — Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
- Paul Anka — U.S. Army Ranger
- Wolfgang Büttner — Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel
- Mel Ferrer — Maj. Gen. Robert Haines
- Ray Danton — Capt. Frank
- Peter Lawford — Lord Lovat
- Eddie Albert — Col. Thompson
- Arletty — Madame Barrault
- Jean-Louis Barrault — Father Louis Roulland
- Directed
- Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton
- Written
- David Pursall, Cornelius Ryan, Jack Seddon, James Jones, Romain Gary
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 1,036 ratings
- Studio
- Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
