THE LONGEST DAY

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"

PRINCIPAL CAST

JOHN WAYNELt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort

ROBERT MITCHUMBrig. Gen. Norman Cota

HENRY FONDABrig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

RICHARD BURTONFlight Officer David Campbell

SEAN CONNERYPvt. Flanagan

LESLIE PHILLIPSRAF Officer Mac