The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) | 
| Directors: Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin
Actors: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  220 reviews
Sales Rank: 501
Format: Black & White, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 178 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 2233464
UPC: 024543234647
EAN: 0024543234647
ASIN: B000EHSVRS
Theatrical Release Date: October 4, 1962
Release Date: May 23, 2006
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After seeing Saving Private Ryan, this epic tale about the Normandy invasion will look sanitized. But in its re-creation of events leading to the epochal battle, the film is captivating and grand, and the parade of famous actors who cross the screen naturally give the already charged action even more of a boost. Three directors worked on it: Ken Annakin (Battle of the Bulge), Andrew Marton (Crack in the World), and Bernhard Wicki (this film being his only credit). --Tom Keogh
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 Faithful June 28, 2009
Harry Gutierrez (Garden Grove, CA USA)
A good faithful rendition of the invasion of Europe in 1944. It presents a good view of the overwhelming organization needed to overcome the Atlantic Wall built by the Germans. The main weakness is the era's obsession with depicting American GI's as wholesome and pure. Well worth having in any WW2 library.
 Was better when I was a kid... June 16, 2009
RJ
After saving private ryan and the latest batch of WWII movies, I have a hard time watching this film. While some others still remain good - still enjoy Patton and Bridge on the River Kwai, etc. I have a hard time getting through this film anymore. The beach scenes and some of the acting seems so fake.
good war movie that celebrates war heroes in blu ray June 6, 2009
Michael P. Dobey
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The blu ray version of this movie is a much cleaned up and perfect edition of this classic war movie. The real story is much more detailed of course and took the lives and efforts of a great many people. But that shouldn't detour anyone from enjoying this well made war epic starring film greats like John Wayne,Robert Mitchum, Red Buttons, Richard Burton, Eddie Albert, Sean Connery, and Henry Fonda and many others. The picture appears crisper here than on any other edition too. My Late Uncle who fought in this battle and accross europe watched this and said it was in spirit at least a good movie representation but the violence was of course on a different level. More like "Saving private ryan" and he told me of many planes coming down in flames and piles of corpses human and animals everywhere. This type of war movie salutes the troops and doesn't as few movies did until recently show war in realistic manner. Things like Heads flying off and piles of guts that were once people laying around. That shouldn't detour anyone from watching this and enjoying the story and fine acting. After all my uncle liked it and he was there. And like he said later at least they didn't make it like so many other movies in which american troops were depicted as the villians. OF course that would start in the late sixties and continue until this day with most war movies except ironically World War 2 films. And that's a sad statement to make. The movie is in black and white and that doesn't make it less enjoyable though because the movie is a high budget movie and it to it's credit even focuses on the Axis troops and their side of the struggle. This is a fine war movie and should be watched by anyone who enjoys war films or just wants to see a salute to the D-Day Troops and their sacrifices.
Review of the Blu-ray version June 6, 2009
Hal Jordan (USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
There are many reviews of the movie posted. I wanted to give some thoughts on the Blu-ray disc. I would rate the transfer as good, but not great. Granted, this is a 47-year old film, so your expectations have to be lower than for a current film. The opening sequences are very good and you begin to think that this is literally a clearer, sharper version than any that has been seen before, even on the film's opening day. But then about 20 minutes in some problems with the transfer crop up. It's most notable in the faces, which become quite washed-out. Several of the scenes with John Wayne suffer from this. The problems last for perhaps 15 to 20 minutes and then intermittently thereafter. These scenes are still very watchable, but the transfer problems become a bit of a distraction; as the scene changes you wonder -- is the next scene going to be a good transfer or a bad transfer? There are also a couple of short scenes that appear not to have been processed at all. I'm not referring here to the documentary footage, which presumably could not be processed, but to regular scenes that for some reason are not in HD. The Blu-ray process also causes some problems with rear-projection scenes, where actors are shown in front of canned backgrounds. Here the Blu-ray process accentuates the fact that the backgrounds aren't live. So, all told, I'm glad I now have a Blu-ray version of this film, but it's not quite as a big an improvement on the DVD version as I had hoped.
The extras are decent, but not exceptional. On Disc 1, the commentary by a UCLA history professor is pretty awful. She is very condescending and seems to assume that she is addressing an audience of 12-year olds who know nothing about WW II. The various "making of" types documentaries on Disc 2 are ok, if somewhat repetitive -- the same interview with Red Buttons is used in a couple of them and many of the same points are repeated. One of these documentaries appears to have been prepared for showing on AMC and another for the History Channel. Probably the best of the lot is an interview with Ken Annakin who was hired by Darryl F. Zanuck to direct the British sequences and ended up directing a considerable chunk of the film. Although Annakin, who recently passed away, was probably in his 90s when the interview was filmed, he is interesting and informative, particularly about filming the difficult aerial footage of the French commandos taking the casino. (Annakin also supplies a commentary track on Disc 1.) Missing from these documentaries is the kind of detailed discussion of the film that goes into the difficulties of coordinating such a huge project or how the choices were made to include some sequences and cut others that fans of the film would love to hear about. I've always thought that the film as we have it is probably missing some deleted scenes. To take one obvious example, where is the scene showing how the Red Buttons character got down from the church steeple? There are a couple of other plot lines that seem to be dropped a little too abruptly. No deleted scenes are included on the discs.
All in all, if you are a big fan of the film, this Blu-ray version is probably worth picking up.
Greatest WW11 Allied Amphibious Landing in Normamndy-- " the Longest Day" ! June 4, 2009
Moon Eui Sik (Seoul, South Korea)
6,June,1944, Under the dirction of Supreme
Alled Commander in Europe, Gen. Eisenhower,15,5000 Trrops
of US,British, and Canadian Force's landing of Normandy,France
was successed(involved Total serial 3,ooo,ooo Troops, 1,1000 Airplane,
4,000 Ships), Preceding these Landing, US. 101 and 81th Airborn Div,on
left side and British 6th Airborn DiV. at Rt.Side landed.
On 29,July,1944, HITTLER refused Retreat from Normandy to Requesting
Gen. Rommel and Von Rundestedt. Omaha and Utah(US), Gold and Sword(British), Juno(Canada). Due to sttep cliff of Omaha Beach, US had
Many unexpected Casualities.Due to Crucial,hard deffense of Germany
At Caen attack,British Landing foce Failed due to German 23st. Panzer
Armoured Groop. Gen. Patton commanded new 3rd US.Army had rapid advance with Spearnead formation to Brest,Lorient,and Loire, reaced near Charters
and Orleans. on Aug,21 Patton's Tank approaching from South of Caen,and
encircled German 7th Army, captured some 50,000 Trrops
German resistance in Normandy was broken. and alled advavanced rapidlly
to Belgium and the Rhine.!
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