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

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

Henry Fonda	Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt jr.
John Wayne	Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Robert Mitchum	Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
Robert Ryan	Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
Arletty	Madame Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault	Father Louis Roulland
Bourvil	Le maire de Colleville
Eddie Albert	Col. Thompson
Paul Anka	U.S. Army Ranger
Richard Beymer	Pvt. Dutch Schultz
Hans Christian Blech	Maj. Werner Pluskat
Richard Burton	Flying Officer David Campbell
Wolfgang Buttner	Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel
Red Buttons	Pvt. John Steele
Pauline Carton	Maid
Gert Fröbe	Sgt. Kaffekanne
Mel Ferrer	Maj. Gen. Robert Haines
Georges Wilson	Alexandre Renaud
Robert Wagner	U.S. Army Ranger
Curd Jürgens	Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt
Fernand Ledoux	Louis
Madeleine Renaud	Mother Superior,Firefighter
Sean Connery	Pvt. Flanagan
Roddy McDowall	Pvt. Morris
Peter Lawford	Lord Lovat
Christian Marquand	Cmdr. Philippe Kieffer
Rod Steiger	Destroyer Commander
Leo Genn	Brig. Gen. Edwin P. Parker Jr.
Ray Danton	Capt. Frank
Irina Demick	Janine Boitard
Fred Durr	U.S. Army Ranger major
Steve Forrest	Capt. Harding
John Gregson	British Padre
Paul Hartmann	Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
Peter Helm	Young GI
Werner Hinz	Field Marshal Erwin Rommel,Manfred Rommel
Sal Mineo	Pvt. Martini
Donald Houston	RAF Pilot
Jeffrey Hunter	Sgt.
Karl John	Gen. Wolfgang Hager
Alexander Knox	Maj. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
Dewey Martin	Sgt. Wilder
Michael Medwin	Pvt. Watney
Kenneth More	Capt. Colin Maud
Jean Servais	RAdm. Janjard
Richard Munch	Gen. Erich Marcks
Edmund O'Brien	Gen. Raymond D. Barton
Leslie Phillips	RAF Officer Mac,Roosevelt's Aide,WRNS Officer
Wolfgang Preiss	Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
Ron Randell	Joe Williams
Georges Rivière	Sgt. Guy de Montlaur
Norman Rossington	Pvt. Clough
Tommy Sands	U.S. Army Ranger
George Segal	U.S. Army Ranger
Bernard Fox	Pvt. Hutchinson
Richard Todd	Maj. John Howard
Tom Tryon	Lt. Wilson
Peter Van Eyck	Lt. Col. Ocker
Richard Wattis	British Paratrooper
Stuart Whitman	Lt. Sheen
Patrick Barr	Group Capt. J.N. Stagg
John Crawford	Col. Caffey
Lyndon Brook	Lt. Walsh
Armin Dahlen	Blumentritt's Adjutant
Mark Damon	Pvt. Harris
Richard Dawson	British Soldier
Eugene Deckers	German Soldier
Gil Delamare	French Commando
Frank Finlay	Pvt. Coke
Harry Fowler	British Paratrooper
Robert Freitag	Meyer's Aide
Bernard Fresson	French Commando
Lutz Gabor	Bit Part
Arnold Gelderman	German Guard on Traintreck
Harold Goodwin	British Soldier
Walter Gotell	German soldier
Henry Grace	Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Clément Harari	Minor Role
Ruth Hausmeister	Frau Maria Rommel
Jack Hedley	RAF Briefing Officer
Walter Horsbrugh	Adm. Creasey
Til Kiwe	Capt. Helmuth Lang
Harry Landis	British Soldier
Wolfgang Lukschy	Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl
Victor Maddern	Camp Cook
Howard Marion-Crawford	Glider Doctor
Neil McCallum	Canadian Doctor
John Meillon	RAdm. Alan G. Kirk
Kurt Meisel	Capt. Ernst During
Gérard Moisan	Paratrooper
Fabián	U.S. Ranger
Tony Mordente	Cook
Bill Nagy	Major in Ste. Mère-Eglise
Nick Stuart	Lieutenant General Omar Bradley,Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley
Rainer Penkert	Lt. Fritz Theen
Malte Petzel	German Officer with Rupert
Richard Münch	Col. Marx
Ernst Schroeder	Hans von Salmuth
Monty Greenwood	Jean
Hartmut Reck	Sgt. Bernhard Bergsdorf
Trevor Reid	Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Heinz Reincke	Col. Josef 'Pips' Priller
Paul Edwin Roth	Col. Schiller
Dietmar Schönherr	Luftwaffe Major
Ernst Schröder	Gen. Hans von Salmuth
Hans Sohnker	Deutscher Offizier
Michael Beint	Actor
Heinz Spitzner	Lt. Col. Helmuth Meyer
Alice Tissot	Housekeeper
Allen Swift	Voice of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Michel Tureau	French Commando
Roland Urban	Paratrooper
Vicco von Bülow	Pemsel's adjutant
Curt Jurgens	Actor
Joe Warfield	US Army Medic
Dominique Zardi	French Spitfire Pilot
Clint Eastwood	British Soldier
Maurice Jarre	Composer

Technical Credits

Cornelius Ryan

David Pursall

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