The Longest Day details
| Formats: | PG DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | John Wayne, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Sean Connery, John Gregson, Rod Steiger, Mel Ferrer |
| Directors: | Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin |
| Genres: | Action/Adventure - War, Drama - War |
| Studio: | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
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The Longest Day |
PG Feature | |
The Longest Day - Bonus Disc |
PG Bonus |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 48 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 04 Jun 2001 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Subtitles: | Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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One of the greatest films ever made.
By Chris Willis from St.Albans, England , 21 Jul 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
If you have never seen this film, you have missed out. It is certainly the best war film and possibly the best film ever made.
Shot at a time when the studios spent their money on people this film shows what we have lost in modern movie making. It's cast list is a who's who of A list stars (and that's not one or two A list stars but nearly 20!), whilst hundreds of extras give you a true taste of the scale of the events (look out in particular for the scene when a lone Luftwaffe pilot makes a strafing run along a mile or so of beach covered in men and materials)
The ensemble cast is complimented by dramatic sweep of the story and the even handed approach used in both the writing and the direction. Unlike so many war films, every side of the story is told. Germans, Poles, British, Americans, French, and all the other nations involved are treated evenly and respectfully.
Perhaps it is because of the closeness of the films shooting to the actual event (most of the cast lived through the war and one of the actors even took part in the parachute raids, playing his own commander in the film) that you there is no over sentementalism. Instead there is real pathos and a feeling of the mutual respect of the combatants that is so often echoed in interviews with the survivors today.
With cracking action scenes, an epic sweep, first class performances from an all A list cast, and enough pathos to bring a tear to the eye of anyone, this is absolutely my top recommendation to anyone.
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(54)one of the best
By Alonso11 (3 reviews) from Shrewsbury , 11 May 2009This has to be my faviourte war movie, it has everything and the battle scenes are amazing
i can remember first seeing this when i was 8 or so and it really got me into WW2
it also has one of my fav scenes with the the germans first sighting of the allied fleet in the channel
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Saving Private who?
By WiseOldBob (37 reviews) from York , 07 May 2009I am amazed at the number of references to 'Saving Private Ryan' made by my fellow critics, many of them even comparing that piece of sentimental clap-trap with this 'proper' war film.
For a start: everybody knows that World War Two was fought in black and white, and as this film accurately depicts (as Ryan does not) that the Americans won the war with the aid of a few cheery cockneys, eccentric British lower aristocracy and Burtonesque hard-men of indeterminate social pedigree.
Moreover, if you were to put 'Saving Private Ryan' on of a Saturday afternoon, the girls in the house are likely as not sit and watch it with you. No such problem with this film: they’d be obliged to go shopping or get on with the housework, leaving us lads to ask the question:
'If you're going to land on some Nazi-occupied land with the briny swell filling up with corpses around you and blazing guns ahead, or be scrabbling around in a French hedgerow who out of Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne or Kenneth More would you rather follow?'
Just one note also for those of you who, like me, forget that a two-disk set is 2 shipping orders in LoveFilm: the second disk is just the Darryl F. Zanuck documentary, so don't order it by mistake!
Oh and one final point: someone criticised John Wayne's acting in 'The Longest Day' as 'wooden'. Isn't that rather missing the point about John Wayne's acting?- Was this review helpful to you?
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good to watch chose to see it
By a customer from London , 01 May 2009good to watch chose to see it- Was this review helpful to you?
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The Longest ...Film
By BB1980 (1 review) from Southend-on-Sea , 14 Apr 2009I had heard this was the authority on D-Day, but I must have missed that bit... I nodded off for half an hour in this 'real time' dramatisation. John Wayne is, in my humble opinion, wooden and not terribly convincing... and the chap who is left dangling from the church spire after a disastrous parachute jump in to the town of St Mere Eglise, seems to spend a lot of time doing 'carry-on' style eye-rolling. For me, there were just too many bits that didn't sit quite right and as a result I couldn't get immersed in the drama. Very long and not very good despite a great cast and a great subject.- Was this review helpful to you?
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The Longest Day
By a customer from Leicester , 04 Apr 2009Real WW2 classic - one you can watch several times. It introduces the characters at length so you are not left wondering who is who when the real action starts.- Was this review helpful to you?
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