The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin
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Actor: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Robert RyanDirector: Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Writer: Cornelius Ryan
Writer: David Pursall
Writer: Jack Seddon
Writer: James Jones
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; German (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 178 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-23
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Classic movie that also looks fantastic on BD!
Summary: 5 Stars
Classic 1962 WWII film, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Peter Lawford, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, a young Sean Connery, Red Buttons, Eddie Albert, Paul Anka (!), Fabian (!!), and whole lot more. Filmed by three different directors, I can't believe how good this now looks on Blu-Ray - fantastic! This movie also holds up better than 'A Bridge Too Far', also based on a Cornelius Ryan book. (Although I really like 'Bridge', but I recognize that it's not a great movie.) Especially stunning is the one long, single-take assault on Oustreham, which is a precursor to similar shots done 40-years later in 'Children of Men' and 'Atonement'DVD Review: Great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best historical recreations of D-day that I have ever seen.DVD Review: Subtitles lost
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great movie. The only complaint is the loss of the subtitles when using 16:9.DVD Review: War fans
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this movie for my husband because he's a war buff. He loved this movie. It took me a while to find it but it was worth the money.
Beautifully remastered. A great buy.
DVD Review: The Cast & The Event: Overwhelming Numbers
Summary: 4 Stars
This was an another one of these all-star casts that you don't see these days in which about everyone who was actor at the time made an appearance....or it just seems that way.
Some of them, to be fair, had very short roles in here, but this is a real "Who's Who" of the acting profession in 1962. There are also a lot of German actors in here speaking German (with subtitles provided), perhaps numbering even more than the English-speaking stars. That's because the famous day of June 6, 1944, is seen from both sides of the conflict.
At three hours, it gives you plenty of D-Day World War II action. Almost two-thirds of the movie involves action from that famous invasion. In some spots, it just gets to be too much. Frankly, the whole film is too much and almost bogs down in too many areas....and it shouldn't, but it is a very technical film.
Special-effects-wise, for a film 45 years old, the action is pretty realistic. I thought the best shots were the overheads during one particular scenes when the Allies were going through a town.
I am not a WWII expert so how much info of the infamous 'D-Day" here is correct, I don't know. Since they went into such detail, I'll assume they were fairly accurate. I can say one thing I learned at the time I first saw this as a late teen: I had no idea "D-Day" was this huge in scope: three million men and 5,000 ships??!!! Amazing.
Description of The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
This special collector's commemorative edition has been issued in honor of the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of France, which marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination over Europe. The attack involved 3,000,000 men, 11,000 planes and 4,000 ships, comprising the largest armada the world has ever seen.The Longest Day is a vivid, hour-by-hour recreation of this historic event. Featuring a stellar international cast, and told from the perspectives of both sides, it is a fascinating look at the massive preparations, mistakes, and random events that determined the outcome of one of the biggest battles in history. Winner of two 1962 Oscars? (Special Effects and Cinematography), The Longest Day ranks as one of Hollywood's truly great war films.
After seeing Saving Private Ryan, this epic tale about the Normandy invasion will look sanitized. But in its re-creation of events leading to the epochal battle, the film is captivating and grand, and the parade of famous actors who cross the screen naturally give the already charged action even more of a boost. Three directors worked on it: Ken Annakin (Battle of the Bulge), Andrew Marton (Crack in the World), and Bernhard Wicki (this film being his only credit). --Tom Keogh
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