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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543029977
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Running Time: 178 minutes
Sales Rank: 29839
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: October 04, 1962
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Amazon.com:
The Longest Day is Hollywood's definitive D-day movie.More modern accounts such as Saving Private Ryan are morevividly realistic, but producer Darryl F. Zanuck's epic 1962 account isthe only one to attempt the daunting task of covering that fateful dayfrom all perspectives. From the German high command and front-lineofficers to the French Resistance and all the key Allied participants,the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own authoritative book, is as factuallyaccurate as possible. The endless parade of stars (John Wayne, HenryFonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and Richard Burton, to name a few)makes for an uneasy mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power,however, and the film falls a little flat for too much of its three-hour running time. But the set-piece battles are still spectacular, andif the landings on Omaha Beach lack the graphic gore of PrivateRyan they nonetheless show the sheer scale and audacity of theinvasion. --Mark Walker
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Rating:  - BLURAY bliss for a classic WWII "Fox" spectacle from DFZ
THE LONGEST DAY is one of the last great spectacle films produced during the era of Darryl Zanuck's reign at 20th Century-Fox. This startling new BLURAY version stunts and makes obsolete all previous editions! The film never looked or sounded better.Interesting and informative commentary by historian Mary Corey is screen specific and almost 100% continuous.A treat to finally see it this way! "Saving Private Ryan" (35 years more modern, technology-wise) has it's MOMENTS, but this film is more satisfying ... Read More
Rating: - A true epic
I often wonder when watching this film how the director manages to undertake such a huge undertaking. The scale of this film is incredible and the amount of back-stories incorporated into the tale from Burtons injured pilot to Waynes gung-ho C.O. Obviously every facet of the D-Day invasion could not be covered, but this film makes a good effort at chronicling one of the most important days in world history in a reasonably accurate and unsentimental way. I still get a shiver down my neck when the German ... Read More
Rating: - The Longest Day
I thought this movie was alwsome it shows what it was like for the people going on to the beach and the airborne it gives all different perspectives from the people from england the united states and the nazi's and it outlines it what everyone was doing all the way until dday was over.
Rating: - Zanuck's vision of D-Day
A little dated, this remains one of the great war movies ever made.On June the 6th 1944 Daryl F. Zanuck was on a ship watching the largest invasion in the history of man.That image would stay with him and drive him to make an epic war film from Cornelius Ryan's bestseller.One of the greatest casts ever assembled: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Eddie Albert, Edmund O'Brien, Peter Lawford,Richard Burton, Jeffrey Hunter, Roddy McDowell, Richard Beamer, ... Read More
Rating: - a great ww2 movie
one of only 2 of my favorite war flicks.i was happy to find it on dvd here.
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