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The Longest Day

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"

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Budget: $10,000,000
Revenue: $50,100,000
ROI: +401.0%

Verdict: Hit

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Crew

Directors

> Ken Annakin (Director)
> Bernhard Wicki (Director)
> Andrew Marton (Director)
> Jean Bourgoin (Director of Photography)
> Walter Wottitz (Director of Photography)
> Henry Sokal Jr. (Assistant Director)
> Gerd Oswald (Second Unit Director)
> Henry Wise (Second Assistant Director)
> Jean Herman (Assistant Director)
> Elmo Williams (Second Unit Director)
> Tom Pevsner (Assistant Director)
> Louis Pitzele (Assistant Director)
> Bernard Farrel (Assistant Director)
> Gérard Renateau (Assistant Director)
> Gerd Oswald (Co-Director)
> Darryl F. Zanuck (Co-Director)

Writers

> Cornelius Ryan (Screenplay)
> Cornelius Ryan (Novel)
> Jack Seddon (Script Consultant)
> Erich Maria Remarque (Script Consultant)
> David Pursall (Script Consultant)
> David Pursall (Writer)
> Romain Gary (Writer)
> James Jones (Writer)
> Jack Seddon (Writer)
> Romain Gary (Script Consultant)
> James Jones (Script Consultant)