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The Longest Day
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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The Longest Day
Starring: Eddie Albert , Paul Anka , Arletty , Jean-Louis Barrault , and Richard Beymer
Director: Ken Annakin , Bernhard Wicki , and Darryl F. Zanuck
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ASIN: B000EHSVRS
Release Date: 2006-05-23

Description

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.

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5 out of 5 stars The Longest Day.......2007-06-28

In 1962, legendary producer Zanuck spared no expense in bringing this long but gripping recounting of the D-Day Allied invasion to the big screen. This epic excels for its innovative camerawork and detailed restaging of events, but most of all, for its powerhouse cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, et al. Most of the big stars appear in their own set pieces, but the cumulative effect is still powerful, bringing to life one of this country's most historic and heroic moments.

5 out of 5 stars The Longest Day.......2007-05-12

Of all the classic World War II films this is the best. Telling multiple stories at the same time it gives the best idea of the events that happened that day from the view of the people who experienced it.

4 out of 5 stars Cameos galore.......2007-03-14

This three-hour epic retelling of the D-Day invasion of Europe in WW II is told with a careful eye on details, but not so much on human drama. In fact, the movie is mainly a series of star cameos (the list is impressive: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton to name just a few), a movie very much representative of the Important Man take on history. The war scenes, for sheer grandeur and scale, are the best in film history prior to SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (for WW II movies anyway), but I've often thought the movie might be better watched with the sound off: the words, the dialogue, the actors are required to speak to each other are cliche-ridden and empty. Knowing the story and its outcome ahead of time, it's hard not to be moved, even inspired, by the action, but as it stands it's an action-filled stunner with a mediocre script.

5 out of 5 stars D-Day.......2007-03-10

Great cast. Great story. Great war film. No computer graphics this.

5 out of 5 stars The Longest Day.......2007-02-07

My favorite World War II movie. Wonderful cast of characters. Shows all the nuances of the Battle of Normandy, God must have been with us.
The Longest Day
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A Truly Great Film , But...
  • This is the best edition to own!
  • one of the best ever made
  • A great WWII movie that can't be missed
  • Good effort but too flat and confusing.
The Longest Day
Starring: Eddie Albert , Paul Anka , Arletty , Jean-Louis Barrault , and Richard Beymer
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ASIN: B00005PJ8S
Release Date: 2002-05-21

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The Longest Day is Hollywood's definitive D-day movie. More modern accounts such as Saving Private Ryan are more vividly realistic, but producer Darryl F. Zanuck's epic 1962 account is the only one to attempt the daunting task of covering that fateful day from all perspectives. From the German high command and front-line officers to the French Resistance and all the key Allied participants, the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own authoritative book, is as factually accurate as possible. The endless parade of stars (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and Richard Burton, to name a few) makes for an uneasy mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power, however, and the film falls a little flat for too much of its three-hour running time. But the set-piece battles are still spectacular, and if the landings on Omaha Beach lack the graphic gore of Private Ryan they nonetheless show the sheer scale and audacity of the invasion. --Mark Walker

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A Truly Great Film , But..........2006-09-04

I adore this movie...LOVE it... easily one of the Greatest World War 2 movies ever. Full of great actors and memorable scenes..my favorite being Red Skelton as the unlucky Para caught by his parachute on the church steeple, helplessly watching as all his buddies get picked off...an awesome scene. My only gripe about this movie is the lack of recognition of all the Canadians who played such a significant part in D-Day, especially on Juno Beach. Bizarrely, the Free-French forces get their own sub-plot in the movie...but where the bloody hell were the Candians in this otherwise fantastic film?

5 out of 5 stars This is the best edition to own!.......2006-05-31

This commentary is about the technical aspects of this release. In this 2000 edition, TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX produced a digitally remastered video resulting in a crisp, clean master with sharp contrast. Best of all, they placed the German and French subtitles in the lower "black bar" area provided though letterboxing. This makes a BIG difference and provides a gratifying viewing experience for an almost 3 hour movie.

Though not historically correct in just a couple of scenes, it is for the most part right on target. Because of studio self-censuring, this movie is purposely devoid of blood and gore that the butchery of war brings. But sometimes blood drenched beaches and hillsides can be a bit gratuitous and the movie's objective can be made without such scenes, as is with this movie.

5 out of 5 stars one of the best ever made.......2006-01-26

the longest day is one of the best war movies ever made. this tale of the first 24 hours of the d-day landings and air drops is more than just good movie making it's history and a fine show of what good writing acting and direction can do. each point of view is given and tthe battle scenes are some of the most powerful ever shot. with an all-star cast this set the tone for all the big epic war movies to come. a must own if you like war movies or just good movies.

5 out of 5 stars A great WWII movie that can't be missed.......2005-11-28

The Longest Day is an exciting and mostly historicly accurate movie that will fit nicely with any WWII movie collection. It tells the invasion of Normandy from many different perspectives. It follows the American, British, German and French forces through the beach and airborn landings. The shore landings are on a massive scale with hundreds of soldiers swarming the beaches. The paratroopers perspective shows the confusion of the whole attack as the U.S. airborn divisions landed all over the countryside and were seperated from their groups. The British troops are shown at the begining of the invasion landing by glider and raiding a bridge key to the sucess of the invasion that the German forces are preparing to destroy. It then moves on the the airborn landings and the American, British, and French invasion forces landing on the beaches. The German perspective is mostly the commanders trying to make sense of the neverending stream of reports about paratroopers, allied navy, decoys, and their inability to launch their Panzer devisions because Hitler went to sleep and was not to be awaken. The name of the movie says a lot as well, as this is a very long movie (three hours), requiring the viewer to have a good attention span to watch it from beginning to end. Some of the beach landing scenes are just five or more minutes of soldiers charging up the beach with no sounds other than constant explosions and gunfire. However, the length of the movie is necessary to show the battle from all sides. This is definitely one of my favorite war movies of all time and has most of the historical facts in place.

2 out of 5 stars Good effort but too flat and confusing........2005-11-20

My wife and I just returned from a trip to France which we concluded with a stay in Normandy, three days of which we devoted to D-Day sites. I had just read Stephen Ambrose's excellent book on D-Day and one of those days we spent in its entirety with a superb private guide who took us much deeper into the experience in the American sectors of Omaha and Utah beaches and Pointe du Hoc than one could ever gain from the most careful study of a guidebook.

My father went ashore at Utah Beach the morning of D-Day and the guide was able to take us places we never could have found on our own where Dad's unit did various things. We spent another day in the British sector at Pegasus Bridge and related sites. It was all incredibly moving and interesting.

We were all pumped to watch The Longest Day as soon as we came home, prepared to love it. I had seen it several times, but not for some years. Sad to say, the film was a letdown. Yes, it does some things well in presenting the German side and hitting the important highlights of the event, but the film is flat and there is no perspective. I won't pick at some of the inaccuracies (such as Robert Wagner and a buddy questioning the need for them to take Pointe du Hoc just before hitting the beach..."Rudder's Rangers" were hard core, gung ho pros) and I agree that the action sequences were good for the technology of the era.

The biggest problem in the film is the lack of any prelude to set up the situation regarding the stakes, the German expectations of the quality of their troops v. those of the Allies, the Allied invasion plan, and any meaningful maps to explain the relative locations and the importance of the myriad individual combat actions. The film becomes just a blur of Germans griping about "the Fuhrer is not to be disturbed" and various shoot 'em ups at locations which the viewer can't put into perspective. Bear in mind this all struck us this way when we had walked the sites less than a week ago.

Much of the foregoing loss of viewer perspective could have been averted with visual map references to transition from one scene to another. The viewer also loses track or is never told of the plan for the various actions. Why were US paratroopers dropped at all, for example, and where were they dropped? What was the reason the Orne waterway bridges (now Pegasus Bridge) were so important? Why was Pointe du Hoc so critical?

I realize Private Ryan type realism wasn't doable in the early 1960's. I see no reason, however, that this film couldn't have generated the type of suspense and emotion that Band of Brothers did with, for example, Easy Company's D-Day assault of the German gun emplacements near Brecourt Manor for which Dick Winters received the DSC and many other members of the company were decorated. It was small arms fire and grenades. What "modern" special effects do you need for that?

D-Day was such a huge undertaking that trying to cover it well in one movie may have just been too big a task. I sincerely believe, however, that this well intended effort would have been significantly improved with a brief narrative at the beginning to explain the broader historical context, the overall plan and the importance of the major objectives featured in the film and map transitions between battle scenes. There's more than enough fluff in the final version which could have been cut to accommodate these significant improvements.

Anyway, if you want to watch The Longest Day, by all means do so, but I'd read Stephen Ambrose's book on the operation first and have a large scale map of Normandy in front of me at the time.
Japan's Longest Day
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Japan's Longest Day
  • Fascinating story told well
Japan's Longest Day
Starring: Toshirô Mifune , Sô Yamamura , Chishu Ryu , Seiji Miyaguchi , and Takashi Shimura
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Manufacturer: Animeigo
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ASIN: B000GDIBQG
Release Date: 2006-09-05

Description

On August 15th, 1945, the Japanese people faced utter destruction. Millions of soldiers and civilians were dead, the rest were starving, and their cities had been reduced to piles of rubble — two of them vaporized by atomic bombs. The government was deadlocked; some ministers called for surrender, and others argued that honor demanded a final battle on home soil. To break the impasse, the cabinet took the unprecedented step of asking the Emperor to decide the fate of the nation.

Unable to bear the suffering of his people any longer, and finally given the power to do something about it, the Emperor decreed that Japan would surrender.

Much work remained to be done: the Imperial Rescript had to be composed, the Emperor had to record it, and it had to be broadcast to the nation. And there were many soldiers and civilians who could not accept surrender, and would do anything — even commit treason — to avoid it.

In a single 24-hour period, the fate of 100 million people would be decided.

This is the true story of August 15th, 1945... Japan's Longest Day.

DVD Features:
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Presented in Anamorphic Widescreen
Japanese with English Subtitles

Bonus Material Includes:
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Japan's Longest Day.......2007-06-27

Woefully unheralded war classic came five years after our own "Longest Day", and matches that film in conveying all the complexities of turning the tide of war; indeed, in this case, bringing it to a deeply humiliating, almost unthinkable conclusion. Japanese soldiers had been indoctrinated to fight to the last man for the glory of the Empire, so surrender is unthinkable to many. The film's power emanates from the slow-burning agony of impending defeat. Mifune is very much front and center as the War Minister who must shoulder the burden of making his troops submit to the Emperor's edict. A fascinating, minutely-detailed film of Mount Fuji-esque proportions.

4 out of 5 stars Fascinating story told well.......2006-10-15

At Noon on August 14, 1945, Emperor Hirohito took the unprecedented step of ordering his government to accept the Potsdam Declaration and surrender unconditionally to the Allies. (Although regarded as divine, the emperor was little more than a figurehead, being too exalted to bother with politics. Though recent historians have shown that Hirohito often worked behind the scenes to influence policy.) Fearing that the populace might fight on anyway, the government took another unprecedented step and made a recording of Hirohito's voice that would be broadcast to the nation, confirming the surrender. That broadcast was scheduled for 24 hours later -- hence the title of the movie. In the meantime, a group of over-zealous officers attempted to stage a coup, capture the emperor and the recording, oust or kill any politicians or generals who stood in their way, and continue the war. The subsequent events make for a story as tense and surprising as any fictional film. As far as I can tell, the movie sticks pretty close to the facts. The only major omission I noticed was that the film leaves out a U.S. air raid that caused a black-out, which in turn helped the emperor's staff hide the recording from the coup's leaders.

"Japan's Longest Day" is a cross between political thrillers like "Seven Days in May" and "Thirteen Days" and spot-the-stars WWII epics like "The Longest Day" and "Tora Tora Tora." It was designed to celebrate Toho Studio's 35th anniversary, and just about every major male star who worked at Toho in the 1960s makes an appearance. Most notable are Kurosawa-regulars Toshiro Mifune as war minister, Takashi Shimura as information minister, and Tatsuya Nakadai as narrator, as well as Ozu-favorite Chishu Ryu as prime minister. Most of the actors are excellent, and anyone who thinks Mifune was a ham should see his subdued but intense performance here.

For western audiences unfamiliar with the events, the movie can be a little confusing. It helps to see recognizable faces in the major roles, and director Kihachi Okamoto (who was an heir to Kurosawa at Toho) keeps a fast pace by filming in a documentary style. His approach isn't as kinetic as Kurosawa's, but he injects some stylishness here and there -- like the exaggerated spurts of blood that samurai movies use. Although I think Okamoto could have cut a few unnecessary characters (like two air force commanders who don't do much) and used more music to increase the tension, the movie is good at revealing the characters' motivations, especially how they rationalized their actions when caught in a paradox: receiving an imperial order that went against their sense of military honor.

AnimEigo's anamorphic DVD is good but not superlative. The print looks fine, though as lovers of Japanese films probably know, a 40-year-old Toho film can always benefit from the sort of loving care that only Criterion provides. It just doesn't glow like the rerelease of "Seven Samurai," and I think the transfer is interlaced, too. However, AnimEigo obviously cares about the movie, and their subtitling is thorough. They also include the movie's trailer, a photo gallery, and some liner notes that contextualize the events. I only wish that the DVD also included some sort of non-fictional documentary. The History Channel made a superb documentary on this topic, and it could have been a fantastic extra.

If you're a WWII history buff, an afficionado of Japanese cinema, or a fan of real-life political thrillers, then "Japan's Longest Day" is well worth your time. It's an absorbing recreation of an event that too few western audiences know anything about. And it's a movie that virtually every Japanese person has seen at least once. (It's shown on Japanese TV every August 15.)
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Starring: Martin Balsam , Sô Yamamura , Joseph Cotten , Tatsuya Mihashi , and E.G. Marshall
Director: Kinji Fukasaku , Toshio Masuda , and Richard Fleischer
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ASIN: B00004TS0M
Release Date: 2000-11-07

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The Thin Red Line (1998)
In recluse director Terrence Malick's 1998 comeback vehicle, the battle for Guadalcanal Island offers an opportunity to explore nothing less than the nature of life, death, God, and courage. Let that be a warning to anyone expecting a conventional war flick; Malick proves himself quite capable of mounting an exciting action sequence, but he's just as likely to meander into pure philosophical noodling. This is not especially an actors' movie, but the standouts are bold: Nick Nolte as a career-minded colonel, Elias Koteas as a deeply spiritual captain who tries to protect his men, Ben Chaplin as a G.I. haunted by lyrical memories of his wife. The backbone of the film is the ongoing discussion between a wry sergeant (Sean Penn) and an ethereal, almost holy private (newcomer Jim Caviezel). In some ways The Thin Red Line seems vaguely, intriguingly incomplete, yet it casts a spell like almost nothing else of its time, and Malick's visionary images are a challenge and a signpost to the rest of his filmmaking generation. --Robert Horton

Tora! Tora! Tora!
"Sir, there's a large formation of planes coming in from the north, 140 miles, 3 degrees east." "Yeah? Don't worry about it." This is just one of the many mishaps chronicled in Tora! Tora! Tora! The epic film shows the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both sides in the historic first American-Japanese coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer oversaw the complicated production, wrestling a sprawling story with dozens of characters into a manageable, fairly easy-to-follow film. While Tora! Tora! Tora! lacks the strong central characters that anchor the best war movies, the real star of the film is the climactic 30-minute battle, a massive feat of cinematic engineering that expertly conveys the surprise, the chaos, and the immense destruction of the attack. --Sean Axmaker

Patton
One of the greatest screen biographies ever produced, this monumental film runs nearly three hours, won seven Academy Awards, and gave George C. Scott the greatest role of his career. Scott embodies his role so fully, so convincingly, that we can't help but be drawn to and fascinated by Patton as a man who is simultaneously bound for hell and glory. Filmed on an epic scale at literally dozens of European locations, Patton does not embrace war as a noble pursuit, nor does it deny the reality of war as a breeding ground for heroes. Through the awesome achievement of Scott's performance and the film's grand ambition, Patton shows all the complexities of a man who accepted his role in life and (like Scott) played it to the hilt. --Jeff Shannon

The Longest Day
The Longest Day is Hollywood's definitive D-day movie. More modern accounts such as Saving Private Ryan are more vividly realistic, but producer Darryl F. Zanuck's epic 1962 account is the only one to attempt the daunting task of covering that fateful day from all perspectives. From the German high command and front-line officers to the French Resistance and all the key Allied participants, the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own authoritative book, is as factually accurate as possible. The endless parade of stars (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and Richard Burton, to name a few) makes for an uneasy mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power, however, and the film falls a little flat for too much of its three-hour running time. But the set-piece battles are still spectacular, and if the landings on Omaha Beach lack the graphic gore of Private Ryan, they nonetheless show the sheer scale and audacity of the invasion. --Mark Walker

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Contains: *Thin Red Line, The *Tora! Tora! Tora! *Patton *Longest Day, The

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5 out of 5 stars ALL 4 FILMS ARE CLASSICS THAT I REALLY WANTED MAKING THIS SET A 'REEL' TREAT FOR ME!.......2006-10-21

FIRST THOUGHTS: 4 EXCELLENT WAR FILMS ON DVD THEMATICALLY COMBINED INTO 1 SET

This set came to me as a gift from one of my sons about 4 years ago. He found it at Sam's Club and he paid about 30 dollars. Each one of the films included are films I really wanted so the set has been a 'reel' treat for me.

IN A NUTSHELL: SAVE $17. ON THIS SET VERSUS PURCHASING INDIVIDUAL TITLES FROM AMAZON

Within a nice outer slipcase you get 4 classic DVDs in their normal DVD packaging and wrappers. These are all releases that you can purchase seperately, but it is a little less costly to get the set. 'Patton' is a 2-DISK set that sells for $14.98 from Amazon, 'Tora Tora Tora' is $12.98, 'The Longest Day' is an edition no longer available directly from Amazon, but several Amazon sellers are offering it New from $15.98, and 'The Thin Red Line' is $9.19 directly from Amazon. It comes to over $53. plus shipping [depending on whether you get all the titles from Amazon or from vendors]. If you buy this set the shipping is free [over $25.] In essence, one can save $17. [as of today] buying this set rather than buying the individual titles, which is significant as these are not promotional DVDs and do in fact have all the 'special features' available on the individual titles.

***** THE TITLES *****

* 'THE LONGEST DAY'
* 'PATTON'
* 'THE THIN RED LINE'
* 'TORA TORA TORA'

4 out of 5 stars Good package of war movies.......2005-07-20

The Longest Day is one of the best war movies ever made. And Tora 3 is a much better depiction of the attack on Pearl Harbor than that stupid Ben Affleck movie.

The Thin Red Line can be a tough one to accept. I had to watch it a few times before I liked it.

3 out of 5 stars Three Magnificent War Movies but One Appalling Fantasy.......2004-02-11

It is up to the viewer to decide what is fact and what is fiction or what is utter and complete fantasy. But in my Opinion, The Longest Day, Patton and Tora Tora Tora are renowned war movies, 'The Thin Red Line' is not.

Maintaining a very slow pace throughout its three and half hours lenght, in the 'Thin Red Line' more Japanese soldiers are shown surrendering in the few hours of combat depicted than actually did the first three years of the Pacific war! (If you do not believe me, look up Tarawa, New Guinea, Marshall Islands, and Iwo Jima for example.) And of course the Americans are shown almost to last as the inhuman beasts and the Japanese as noble Samurai.

Following in the tradition of the racist epic 'Birth to a Nation', movies like the Thin Red Line and Pearl Harbor are rewriting ouf history. For example, in Pearl Harbor the Japanese are depicted as being justified in attacking, when actually the United States stopped selling the Japanese oil because they were allies with Hitler, making war on China, and had just invaded French Indochina.

5 out of 5 stars I'll tell you why..........2004-02-08

To answer another reviewer's question: Why would you buy this set when you can get the individual films cheaper? You can't buy the individual films cheaper.

The version of "Patton" in this set is the 2-disc Special Edition, which is out of print except for in this set, and selling for more than the price of this entire set on auction sites.

So save some money, get the 2-disc version of Patton, and get three other great WWII films for free (essentially).

1 out of 5 stars Two bad movies for the price of five.......2002-12-13

Let's face it...the Thin Red Line is the most boring war movie ever made. Tora Tora Tora is very outdated, and although it does show the attack upon Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective, it is very much outclassed by the newer movie, "Pearl Harbor,"
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Disc 1: PATTON SPECIAL EDITION Disc 2: LONGEST DAY, THE Disc 3: TORA! TORA! TORA!

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5 out of 5 stars GREAT FOR MOVIE BUFFS and a great gift item........2007-04-12

Would like to see more of these book/DVD combos.
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    The Longest Day is Hollywood's definitive D-day movie. More modern accounts such as Saving Private Ryan are more vividly realistic, but producer Darryl F. Zanuck's epic 1962 account is the only one to attempt the daunting task of covering that fateful day from all perspectives. From the German high command and front-line officers to the French Resistance and all the key Allied participants, the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own authoritative book, is as factually accurate as possible. The endless parade of stars (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and Richard Burton, to name a few) makes for an uneasy mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power, however, and the film falls a little flat for too much of its three-hour running time. But the set-piece battles are still spectacular, and if the landings on Omaha Beach lack the graphic gore of Private Ryan they nonetheless show the sheer scale and audacity of the invasion. --Mark Walker

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    4 out of 5 stars A Truly Great Film , But..........2006-09-04

    I adore this movie...LOVE it... easily one of the Greatest World War 2 movies ever. Full of great actors and memorable scenes..my favorite being Red Skelton as the unlucky Para caught by his parachute on the church steeple, helplessly watching as all his buddies get picked off...an awesome scene. My only gripe about this movie is the lack of recognition of all the Canadians who played such a significant part in D-Day, especially on Juno Beach. Bizarrely, the Free-French forces get their own sub-plot in the movie...but where the bloody hell were the Candians in this otherwise fantastic film?

    5 out of 5 stars This is the best edition to own!.......2006-05-31

    This commentary is about the technical aspects of this release. In this 2000 edition, TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX produced a digitally remastered video resulting in a crisp, clean master with sharp contrast. Best of all, they placed the German and French subtitles in the lower "black bar" area provided though letterboxing. This makes a BIG difference and provides a gratifying viewing experience for an almost 3 hour movie.

    Though not historically correct in just a couple of scenes, it is for the most part right on target. Because of studio self-censuring, this movie is purposely devoid of blood and gore that the butchery of war brings. But sometimes blood drenched beaches and hillsides can be a bit gratuitous and the movie's objective can be made without such scenes, as is with this movie.

    5 out of 5 stars one of the best ever made.......2006-01-26

    the longest day is one of the best war movies ever made. this tale of the first 24 hours of the d-day landings and air drops is more than just good movie making it's history and a fine show of what good writing acting and direction can do. each point of view is given and tthe battle scenes are some of the most powerful ever shot. with an all-star cast this set the tone for all the big epic war movies to come. a must own if you like war movies or just good movies.

    5 out of 5 stars A great WWII movie that can't be missed.......2005-11-28

    The Longest Day is an exciting and mostly historicly accurate movie that will fit nicely with any WWII movie collection. It tells the invasion of Normandy from many different perspectives. It follows the American, British, German and French forces through the beach and airborn landings. The shore landings are on a massive scale with hundreds of soldiers swarming the beaches. The paratroopers perspective shows the confusion of the whole attack as the U.S. airborn divisions landed all over the countryside and were seperated from their groups. The British troops are shown at the begining of the invasion landing by glider and raiding a bridge key to the sucess of the invasion that the German forces are preparing to destroy. It then moves on the the airborn landings and the American, British, and French invasion forces landing on the beaches. The German perspective is mostly the commanders trying to make sense of the neverending stream of reports about paratroopers, allied navy, decoys, and their inability to launch their Panzer devisions because Hitler went to sleep and was not to be awaken. The name of the movie says a lot as well, as this is a very long movie (three hours), requiring the viewer to have a good attention span to watch it from beginning to end. Some of the beach landing scenes are just five or more minutes of soldiers charging up the beach with no sounds other than constant explosions and gunfire. However, the length of the movie is necessary to show the battle from all sides. This is definitely one of my favorite war movies of all time and has most of the historical facts in place.

    2 out of 5 stars Good effort but too flat and confusing........2005-11-20

    My wife and I just returned from a trip to France which we concluded with a stay in Normandy, three days of which we devoted to D-Day sites. I had just read Stephen Ambrose's excellent book on D-Day and one of those days we spent in its entirety with a superb private guide who took us much deeper into the experience in the American sectors of Omaha and Utah beaches and Pointe du Hoc than one could ever gain from the most careful study of a guidebook.

    My father went ashore at Utah Beach the morning of D-Day and the guide was able to take us places we never could have found on our own where Dad's unit did various things. We spent another day in the British sector at Pegasus Bridge and related sites. It was all incredibly moving and interesting.

    We were all pumped to watch The Longest Day as soon as we came home, prepared to love it. I had seen it several times, but not for some years. Sad to say, the film was a letdown. Yes, it does some things well in presenting the German side and hitting the important highlights of the event, but the film is flat and there is no perspective. I won't pick at some of the inaccuracies (such as Robert Wagner and a buddy questioning the need for them to take Pointe du Hoc just before hitting the beach..."Rudder's Rangers" were hard core, gung ho pros) and I agree that the action sequences were good for the technology of the era.

    The biggest problem in the film is the lack of any prelude to set up the situation regarding the stakes, the German expectations of the quality of their troops v. those of the Allies, the Allied invasion plan, and any meaningful maps to explain the relative locations and the importance of the myriad individual combat actions. The film becomes just a blur of Germans griping about "the Fuhrer is not to be disturbed" and various shoot 'em ups at locations which the viewer can't put into perspective. Bear in mind this all struck us this way when we had walked the sites less than a week ago.

    Much of the foregoing loss of viewer perspective could have been averted with visual map references to transition from one scene to another. The viewer also loses track or is never told of the plan for the various actions. Why were US paratroopers dropped at all, for example, and where were they dropped? What was the reason the Orne waterway bridges (now Pegasus Bridge) were so important? Why was Pointe du Hoc so critical?

    I realize Private Ryan type realism wasn't doable in the early 1960's. I see no reason, however, that this film couldn't have generated the type of suspense and emotion that Band of Brothers did with, for example, Easy Company's D-Day assault of the German gun emplacements near Brecourt Manor for which Dick Winters received the DSC and many other members of the company were decorated. It was small arms fire and grenades. What "modern" special effects do you need for that?

    D-Day was such a huge undertaking that trying to cover it well in one movie may have just been too big a task. I sincerely believe, however, that this well intended effort would have been significantly improved with a brief narrative at the beginning to explain the broader historical context, the overall plan and the importance of the major objectives featured in the film and map transitions between battle scenes. There's more than enough fluff in the final version which could have been cut to accommodate these significant improvements.

    Anyway, if you want to watch The Longest Day, by all means do so, but I'd read Stephen Ambrose's book on the operation first and have a large scale map of Normandy in front of me at the time.
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        The Longest Day [Region 2]
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          The Longest Day [Region 2]
          Starring: Eddie Albert , Paul Anka , Arletty , Jean-Louis Barrault , and Richard Beymer
          Director: Bernhard Wicki , Darryl F. Zanuck , and Andrew Marton
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