Film Dope


The Longest Day

Ken Annakin
Director, British exterior episodes
Andrew Marton
Director, American exterior episodes
Bernhard Wicki
Director, German episodes
Darryl F. Zanuck
Director (uncredited)

Perfect evocation of the mammoth D-Day landings. Private Ryan may have out done the actual beach landings, but the latter half of the film pales compared to this 1962 epic. Red Buttons steals it as an unfortunate paratrooper.

11/22/2011: Giving this one a Blu-Ray makeover!
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25th September 1962
Cinema






4th October 1962
Cinema






11th October 1962
Cinema







3rd June 2008
Blu-Ray



178 mins
2.20:1


6th May 2014
Blu-Ray





Eddie Albert
Colonel Thompson
Paul Anka
US Ranger
Arletty
Madame Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault
Father Louis Roulland
Richard Beymer
Private Dutch Schultz
Hans Christian Blech
Maj. Werner Pluskat
Bourvil
Alphonse Lenaux, maire de Colleville sur Orne
Richard Burton
Flight Officer David Campbell
Wolfgang Büttner
Major General Doctor Hans Speidel
Red Buttons
Private John Steele
Pauline Carton
Maid
Sean Connery
Private Flanagan
Ray Danton
Captain Frank
Irina Demick
Janine Boitard
Fred Dur
U.S. Army Ranger Major
Fabian
U.S. Ranger
Mel Ferrer
Major General Robert Haines
Henry Fonda
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr,
U.S. Fourth Division
Steve Forrest
Captain Harding
Gert Fröbe
German Soldier
Leo Genn
Brigadier General Parker
John Gregson
British Padre
Paul Hartmann
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
Peter Helm
Young G.I
Werner Hinz
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Donald Houston
R.A.F. Pilot
Jeffrey Hunter
Sergeant Fuller
Karl John
Luftwaffe General Wolfgang Hager
Curd Jürgens
General Gunther Blumentritt
Alexander Knox
Major General Walter Bedell Smith
Peter Lawford
Lord Lovat
Fernand Ledoux
Louis
Christian Marquand
Commander Philippe Kieffer
Dewey Martin
Sergeant Wilder
Roddy McDowall
Private Morris
Michael Medwin
Cpl. Watney
Sal Mineo
Private Martini
Robert Mitchum
Brigadier General Norman Cota
Kenneth More
Commander Colin Maud
Richard Münch
General Erich Marcks
Edmond O'Brien
General Raymond O. Barton
Leslie Phillips
R.A.F. officer
Wolfgang Preiss
Major General Max Pemsel
Ron Randell
Joe Williams
Madeleine Renaud
Mother Superior
Georges Rivière
Sergeant Guy de Montlaur
Norman Rossington
Pvt. Clough
Robert Ryan
Brigadier General James M. Gavin
Tommy Sands
U.S. Ranger
George Segal
US Ranger on ladder
Jean Servais
Rear Admiral Robert Jaujard
Rod Steiger
Destroyer Commander
Richard Todd
Major John Howard
Tom Tryon
Lieutenant Wilson
Peter van Eyck
Lieutenant Colonel Ocker
Robert Wagner
U.S. Ranger
Richard Wattis
British Paratrooper
Stuart Whitman
Lieutenant Sheen
Georges Wilson
Alexandre Renaud
John Wayne
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Eugene Deckers
German Soldier
Heinz Spitzner
Lieutenant Colonel Hellmuth Meyer
Robert Freitag
Meyer's Aide
Tony Mordente
Cook
Bernard Fox
British Soldier (Hutchinson)
Patrick Barr
Group Capt. J.N. Stagg
Siân Phillips
WREN
Heinz Reincke
Colonel Josef 'Pips' Priller
Dietmar Schönherr
Luftwaffe Major
Henry Grace
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Trevor Reid
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
John Robinson
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey
Jack Hedley
RAF Briefing Officer
Alice Tissot
Lenaux's housekeeper
Ernst Schröder
General Hans von Salmuth
Harold Goodwin
British soldier in glider
Frank Finlay
Pvt. Coke
Lyndon Brook
Lt. Walsh
Howard Marion-Crawford
Glider Doctor
Serge Tolstoy
German Officer (?)
Lionel Vitrant
Paratroop in Garden (Robert Murphy)
Harry Fowler
British Paratrooper
Gil Delamare
Kieffer's Aide
Bernard Fresson
Kieffer's Aide
Wolfgang Lukschy
Colonel General Alfred Jodl
Nicholas Stuart
Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley
John Meillon
Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk
John Crawford
Colonel Caffey
Jack Phillips
Roosevelt's Aide
Leslie de Laspee
Bill Millin, Lovat’s piper
Ruth Hausmeister
Frau Rommel
Michael Hinz
Manfred Rommel
Bill Nagy
Major Lance in Ste. Mère-Eglise
Patrick Jordan
Tom, British Soldier Talking to Major Howard
Bryan Coleman
Ronald Callen
Neil McCallum
Canadian Doctor
Simon Lack
Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory
Louis Mounier
Sir Arthur William Tedder
Mark Damon
Private Harris
Maurice Poli
Jean
Jo D'Avray
French Navy Captain
Kurt Meisel
Capt. Ernst During
Til Kiwe
Capt. Helmuth Lang
Malte Petzel
German officer with Rupert
Paul Edwin Roth
Col. Schiller
Hartmut Reck
Sgt. Bernhard Bergsdorf
Rainer Penkert
Lt. Fritz Theen
Dieter Jahne
German Soldier
Rudy Lenoir
German Soldier
Walter Horsbrugh
Adm. Creasey
Kurt Pecher
German Commander
Richard Dawson
British Soldier
Colin Drake
Zanuck
Joseph Lowe
Ranger at Ponte du Hoc
Bob Steele
Paratrooper
(not the cowboy actor)
Al Mulock
Undetermined Role
Harry Landis
British Soldier
Michael Beint
Bit Part
Lucien Camiret
Bit Part
Jean Champion
Bit Part
Michel Duchaussoy
Extra
Lutz Gabor
Bit Part
Clément Harari
Bit Part
Mickey Knox
US Airman
Edward Meeks
Marcel Rouzé
Bit Part
Dominique Zardi
French Spitfire Pilot
Geoffrey Bayldon
Officer at Eisenhower briefing
Russell Waters
Yves Barsacq
Man at Resistance HQ
Gary Collins
Officer on Bridge w/Destroyer Commander
Arnold Gelderman
German Guard on Train Track
Daniel Gélin
Undetermined Role (French Version) (scenes deleted)
Françoise Rosay
Undetermined Role (French Version) (scenes deleted)
Walter Gotell
German soldier (possibly?)
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Resistance Man
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SS Sturmhauptführer
Unknown11422-03
Checkpoint soldier
Unknown11422-04
Checkpoint soldier
Unknown11422-05
Feldwebel
Unknown11422-06
prisoners and escort
Unknown11422-08
MP
Unknown11422-09
US Ranger
Unknown11422-10
Navy Signalman
Unknown11422-11
RAF man at bar
Unknown11422-12
Ted, barman
Unknown11422-13
US Meteorological Service
Unknown11422-15
US Pathfinder
Unknown11422-16
US Pathfinder
Unknown11422-17
Airman
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Airman
Unknown11422-20
German intelligence Officer
Unknown11422-21
German intelligence Officer
Unknown11422-22
German officer playing cards
Unknown11422-23
German officer playing cards
Reginald Pasch
German General playing cards
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Sparrow, US Soldier
Unknown11422-26
Glider pilot
Unknown11422-27
Glider co-pilot
Unknown11422-28
British Paratrooper
Vicco von Bülow
German Communications Officer
Norman Johns
British Paratrooper (John)
Unknown11422-31
British Paratrooper
Radio Operator (Smith)
Hans Söhnker
Pemsel's Lieutenant
Unknown11422-33
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Rupert Distributor
Unknown11422-35
German officer at Caen
Unknown11422-36
German soldier at Caen
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French Paratrooper
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French Paratrooper
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German guard on train track
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Canadian Paratrooper
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Canadian Paratrooper
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Canadian Paratrooper
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German Soldier
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German Soldier
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German intelligence officer
British intelligence officer
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Sister
Unknown11422-48
US Paratrooper
Michael Berger
German soldier in bunker
Unknown11422-52
101st Airborne Paratrooper
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101st Airborne Paratrooper
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101st Airborne Paratrooper
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French Special Service
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French Special Service
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French Special Service
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Luftwaffe Officer
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German Officer
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German Officer
Unknown11422-61
German Officer
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German Officer
Armin Dahlen
Blumentritt's Adjutant
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Officer on USS Augusta
Unknown11422-65
Unteroffizier
Unknown11422-67
Nun
Unknown11422-68
Nun
Unknown11422-69
Nun
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Nun
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Nun
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Intelligence officer
Joe Warfield
Medic
Unknown11422-74
Medic
A Dog
Winston