The Longest Day — Official Trailer

Synopsis

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"

Cast & Crew

Directed by Ken Annakin

• John Wayne
  as Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
• Robert Mitchum
  as Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
• Henry Fonda
  as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
• Richard Burton
  as Flight Officer David Campbell
• Sean Connery
  as Pvt. Flanagan
• Leslie Phillips
  as RAF Officer Mac

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