The Longest Day 1962

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   Leighton Trent 8 月 23, 2026

   “He’s dead. I’m crippled. You’re lost. Do you suppose it’s always like that? I mean war. Daryl Zanuck’s finest hour as a producer was also the finest cinematic hour for the D-Day invasion up until Steven Spielberg put his directorial stamp on that historic day with Saving Private Ryan in 1998. I can’t imagine American audiences going to see what they thought was a Richard Burton film or a John Wayne film or a Henry Fonda film and then feeling bombarded by all the other actors of another language given just as much screen time as these legends if not more. I could see this in my in-laws’ faces as we watched it for Memorial Day, a movie they’d seen…

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   Sam 8 月 23, 2026

   “The Longest Day” is a sprawling, three-hour epic war film and certainly has a lot of ambition, capturing the events of the invasion of Normandy from multiple countries’ perspectives, but it’s far from perfect. It presents the whole attack as a unified effort, and there’s a great buildup with perspectives from English, French, and German sides. Obviously, with such an ambitious plot, there’s a huge, ambitious cast here, and it’s a very good cast, ranging from the likes of Robert Mitchum to Richard Burton, and features a whole heap of cameos, but I think Connery is a highlight here. It’s incredibly authentic too, since everything is shot on location, and for maybe the first time in a war film of…

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   Mike D'Angelo 8 月 23, 2026

   67/100 [originally written on my blog] One look at the directing credits and you can see why this all-star historical epic—a Best Picture nominee that year, losing to fellow epic Lawrence of Arabia—rarely gets mentioned nowadays. But while I was steeled for something stodgy and bloated and incoherent, the film turns out to be almost avant-garde by the standards of its era, to the point where only patriotism could have prevented its wholesale rejection by the public. I can see folks grudgingly coping with all the subtitled French and German dialogue, and even respecting the decision to treat the Nazi command with reasonable dignity; the film emphasizes their tactical intelligence, making it clear that they were caught off guard mostly…

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   📀 Cammmalot 📀 8 月 23, 2026

   Cinematic Time Capsule 1962 Marathon – Film #57 ”Next stop: Normandy.” Multiple directors, multiple storylines and a sprawling all-star cast all come together to make this one of the most ambitious war epics ever made. Documenting the D-Day invasion from seemingly every angle this must have been an amazing film to watch on the big screen back in the day. It even held to the record for the world’s most expensive B&W film all the way up until 1993’s Schindler’s List. BONUS POINTS for the powerful paratrooping sequence in which Red Buttons is trapped dangling from a church and forced to helplessly observe everything happening around him. ”I can’t hear you. It’s them bells. I’ve had them in my ears for 10 hours.” Cinematic Time Capsule – 1962 Ranked The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See

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   Two Cineasts 8 月 23, 2026

   …it will be the longest day… (Erwin Rommel) Hi everybody. I must admit, I totally underrated this pic, with 3 from 5 stars. In my memory it was so boring and much too long. After rewatching I uprated it to 4 of 5 stars. Rightfully called a classic in that genre, I think the story is well known. Everything around and about the the historical events of June the 6th 1944, better known as the D-Day or „The longest day“. And a long day deserves a long movie. With a running time of 180 minutes it is just a bit too long…

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   Bens_MovieLens 8 月 23, 2026

   Watched this for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. After the first hour, this was probably on track for one star at best. I couldn’t tell you a single thing that happened or a single character involved and it was about as boring a film can get for me. However, the second half was absolutely outstanding with some excellent action and attention to detail. The Battle at Ouistreham had genuinely one of the greatest sequences I’ve ever seen, not just in the war genre. So yeah the first half was really bad, the second half was great so overall it balances out at two and a half stars. 55/100 🪖

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   pirateneckbeard 8 月 23, 2026

   So as kismet had it I wound up watching this on the day it took place but kinda gotta thank TCM and the pvr for that. Wow I really like how this was done like four short stories that overlap a time and place to paint a picture of how lucky in a lot of ways that the allies struck at that moment and the costly mistakes the axis made plus what a great cast I can’t believe that they orchestrated it with so many great cameos. I was always daunted by the sheer length of this film and I do say at times you feel it but for most part I was really intrigued with all the material going…

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   Raphael Georg Klopper 8 月 23, 2026

   Surgical and historically detailed piece of war-drama, with inevitable stumbling details aside, but what it captures from the long waiting impatience before the massive mission about to begin; the anticipation build up before it implodes into an nonstop unceasing battle, and the complete mess that is the German commanding office turns to be when all out war overruns their lines: forms what The Longest Day has to offer as one of the most ambitious projects by producer Darryl F. Zanuck to bring to life the D-Day operation that forever changed the tide of war in all its glory that puts air and earth in total state of war! The superb trio of directors shoots the exteriors as the battle sequences…

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   mackenzie 🪖 8 月 23, 2026

   “he’s dead. I’m crippled. you’re lost. do you suppose it’s always like that? I mean war.” been meaning to watch this and I grabbed it when I was thrifting yesterday. was looking forward to watching it but sad to say that I wanted to love it more than I did 😭 I don’t have much to say about the film itself except that the last 40 or so minutes were great. not to mention, the battle scenes were some of the best I’ve ever seen. I had actually read that veterans were involved and honestly that makes it hard not to respect the movie as a whole, but it was just too long and there were so many characters and storylines that it made me lose track of what was happening unfortunately. I feel like I do have to rewatch at some point and lock in. maybe I’ll enjoy it more next time!!

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    Andy Summers 🤠 8 月 23, 2026

    The build up towards the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings has rightly been everywhere over the last week or so. On the news, on the television, reminding us of the sacrifice so many men and women made on the day that turned the tide of WWII. Allied troops landing on French soil in numbers for the first time since the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, with French, Polish, Canadian, British, and American Forces leading the way. Free French Paratroopers, elements of the SAS, the French Resistance, and members of the US Airborne’s 82nd and 101st Divisions caused chaos behind the front lines, and the Naval bombardment that opened some of the doors cannot be underestimated either. The RAF bombed…

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    lila 🌸 8 月 20, 2026

    My two stars are for Koenig as a historical consultant and the beaches of la Conche

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    omanik 8 月 19, 2026

    Ehe “Saving Private Ryan” in die Kinos kam gab es kein Jahr, in dem dieser Film nicht um den 6. Juni rum im Fernsehen lief. Seither scheint er vergessen. Obwohl eine internationale Koproduktion ist die Verklärung des amerikanischen Heldentums über deutlich. Wenn es Menscheln darf, sind auch meist nur Amerikaner zugegen. Die Deutschen treten in erster Linie durch ihre Generäle in Erscheinung. Briten und Franzosen sind weitgehend schmückendes Beiwerk. Trotzdem gehört der Film für mich zu den besseren Kriegsfilmen.

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    Izoubee 8 月 19, 2026

    EN NOORMANDIE

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    max sinclair 8 月 18, 2026

    watch this atleast 4 times a year, supreme comfort film. fixes ur attention span if your a young degenerate.

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    Eloïse 8 月 18, 2026

    The longest movie

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    schizou 8 月 18, 2026

    le film de mon enfance que je pourrai regarder 1000x tellement il est beau

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    HarveyBroccoli 8 月 17, 2026

    Great production but very long

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    DrWebi 8 月 17, 2026

    Un peu fouilli la cohésion de la marine, terrestre et aérienne. C’est chaud de capter qui est qui mais pour le coup la réalité est bien retransmise Full noir et blanc 🚨

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    galahad2585 8 月 17, 2026

    Je suis content d’avoir vu ce film c’est une recommandation de Clémentine. Vu en Normandie donc bien dans le thème du débarquement. Pour un film de 62 il est super et le fait qu’il soit en noir et blanc ne pose un problème que pour les scènes de nuit on n’arrive pas à faire la différence.

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    Luke Nelson 8 月 15, 2026

    6.0/10

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    rvb808 8 月 15, 2026

    One of the all time great war films ever made. With a stacked cast and a runtime to fit said stacked cast, this is one film that still stands the test of time.

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    Tony R 8 月 15, 2026

    I like the concept of telling the story from all parties involved, but this needed better directors. It’s not a bad film, there are many very memorable compelling sequences, but I felt like some of the non-action scenes could have been done better.

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    SteveDee69 8 月 14, 2026

    Star studded cast

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    Smokey 8 月 13, 2026

    “I wonder who won.”

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    odomam 8 月 12, 2026

    While Saving Private Ryan gets the credit for the most realistic presentation of the Omaha Beach landing, this film deserves the praise for giving the full scope of Operation Overlord. I was skeptical at the start with slug on introducing characters and their particular role. Somewhat necessary but at the same time seemed fruitless by the end. Also with it being shot in black and white was not super appealing. Once you get to the actual meat of the sandwich…

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    Jucarn 8 月 12, 2026

    YES PLEASE YES !! I love when nazi soldiers speak german, English people speak english and French people speak french in war movies ! Apart from that I’m now sure that I still don’t really like this genre of movie. The only part that really catch my attention was when the tension builds up the night before the attack.

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    juanzipp 8 月 11, 2026

    si esto sigue siendo al día de hoy una superproducción impresionante, no puedo imaginarme lo que habrá sido en el momento de su estreno. el término ”épica” nunca fue tan preciso. sin lugar a dudas la película definitiva sobre el Día D y hasta donde sé la única en hacer lo que sucede acá: una representación completa de la invasión aliada a Francia del 6 de junio de 1944. y cuando digo completa es realmente completa, sin sentido figurado. nunca…

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    MxsterJakester 8 月 10, 2026

    Truly impressive on a technical scale and conveys the full meaning of the film’s title. Always fun to remember part of why the Germans lost the war is that on June 6th, Hitler needed his beauty sleep.

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    marge__ 8 月 10, 2026

    Long…

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    Tiberge 4 月 16, 2024

    “He’s dead, I’m crippled, you’re lost. Do you suppose it’s always like this ? I mean war.”

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    Thomas Doustaly 11 月 30, 1980

    Vu enfant à la télévision.