The Longest Day [2 Discs] [Blu-ray/DVD]

Overview

The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each actor speaks in his or her native language with subtitles translating for the benefit of the audience (alternate "takes" were made of each scene with the foreign actors speaking English, but these were seen only during the first network telecast of the film in 1972). The stars are listed alphabetically, with the exception of John Wayne, who as Lt. Colonel Vandervoort gets separate billing. Others in the huge cast include Eddie Albert, Jean-Louis Barrault, Richard Burton, Red Buttons, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Gert Frobe, Curt Jurgens, Peter Lawford, Robert Mitchum, Kenneth More, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Jean Servais, Rod Steiger and Robert Wagner. Paul Anka, who wrote the film's title song, shows up as an Army private. Scenes include the Allies parachuting into Ste. Mere Englise, where the paratroopers were mowed down by German bullets; a real-life sequence wherein the German and Allied troops unwittingly march side by side in the dark of night; and a spectacular three-minute overhead shot of the troops fighting and dying in the streets of Quistreham. The last major black-and-white road-show attraction, The Longest Day made millions, enough to recoup some of the cost of 20th Century Fox's concurrently produced Cleopatra.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/05/2015
UPC:	0024543957676
Original Release:	1962
Rating:	G
Source:	20Th Century Fox
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital, Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	2:58:00
Sales rank:	813

Special Features

Closed Caption; Blu-ray; Historical commentary with Mary Corey; Film commentary with Ken Annakin; DVD; Audio Commentary by Historian Mary Corey; Audio Commentary with Director Ken Annakin; DVD; Longest Day: A Salute to Courage featurette; Hollywood backstories: The Longest Day; D-Day Revisited documentary; Richard Zanuck on The Longest Day featurette; Still gallery; Original theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Eddie Albert	Col. Thompson
Paul Anka	U.S. Army Ranger
Arletty	Madame Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault	Father Louis Roulland
Richard Beymer	Pvt. Dutch Schultz
Hans Christian Blech	Maj. Werner Pluskat
Bourvil	Mayor of Colleville
Wolfgang Büttner	Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel
Red Buttons	Pvt. John Steele
Pauline Carton	Maid
Sean Connery	Pvt. Flanagan
Ray Danton	Capt. Frank
Irina Demick	Janine Boitard(as Irina Demich)
Mel Ferrer	Maj. Gen. Robert Haines
Henry Fonda	Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Steve Forrest	Capt. Harding
Gert Fröbe	Sgt. Kaffekanne
Leo Genn	Brig. Gen. Edwin P. Parker Jr.
John Gregson	British Padre
Fabián	U.S. Ranger
Tommy Sands	U.S. Ranger
Nick Stuart	Lieutenant General Omar Bradley
Richard Münch	Col. Marx
Ernst Schroeder	Hans von Salmuth
Wolfgang Buttner	Major General Doctor Hans Speidel
Frank Finlay	Pvt. Coke
Lyndon Brook	Lt. Walsh
Til Kiwe	Capt. Hellmuth Lang
Bill Nagy	Major in Ste. Mère-Eglise (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin	British Soldier (uncredited)
Michael Beint	Actor
Harry Fowler	British Paratrooper (uncredited)
Neil McCallum	Canadian Doctor (uncredited)
Robert Freitag	Meyer's Aide
Allen Swift	Voice of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Curt Jurgens	Actor

Technical Credits

David Pursall

Cornelius Ryan

Ken Annakin	Director
Andrew Marton	Director
Gerd Oswald	Director
Bernhard Wicki	Director
Darryl F. Zanuck	Director,Producer
David Pursall	Screenwriter
Cornelius Ryan	Screenwriter