The Longest Day (1962) * FULL LENGTH REACTION
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Another black and white movie, which I never though was something I would watch, but here we are. I've seen a handful of them already, and it won't stop!
It's always interesting to see what the production/filming style is like in different decades, and you can see just how much has changed since then. I'm always amazed to see a movie from the 50/60/70s and a more recent one, and seeing the huge pacing differences.
I loved seeing Henry Fonda again! And Sean Connery, of course (I'll have to watch Bond movies soon to see him in those!)
I like how different movies about the same/similar events differ from one another. Though it really did feel like Steven Spielberg was inspired by the landings shown in this film, for Saving Private Ryan. How accurate I am... I don't know, but that's what it seemed like to me at least.
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Verowak
2024-07-04 22:14:16 +0000 UTCAt the time, John Wayne (who played the colonel with the broken leg who got wheeled around in the cart) was the biggest star in Hollywood. However, Darryl Zanuck (the producer of The Longest Day) had said bad things about John Wayne when John Wayne started producing movies on his own. So, to get even, John Wayne demanded (and got) a lot more money than anyone else. He knew that The Longest Day couldn't claim to have a star-studded cast unless he was in it....
Chris Gronau
2024-07-03 16:57:41 +0000 UTCYeah, in real life there was actually a point in the battle where Richard Todd ran up to Major Howard and updated him on the current status of the soldiers holding the bridge. This is depicted in the movie. So, there is a scene where Richard Todd, the actor, is talking to another actor who is playing the role of Richard Todd, the soldier.
Chris Gronau
2024-07-03 16:49:46 +0000 UTCThank you for that! I always find it amazing how people with first hand experience act in movies about the events. As a director/producer I would feel so much pressure to make sure it's good and accurate lol
Verowak
2024-07-03 13:29:03 +0000 UTCIt makes me happy that you can say you like both for different reasons and have complaints about both also. It's very refreshing to hear 😁
Verowak
2024-07-03 13:28:04 +0000 UTCI have no idea what Eisenhower looks like, it's not something we're ever taught in Canada. I mention in the outro/imdb trivia that the person got the role because he looked like him so much, and he wasn't an actor lol
Verowak
2024-07-03 13:24:42 +0000 UTCThank you for that, I had no idea there were many known actors from the 60s. It makes sense, but since I have no idea who they are, it didn't really register lol
Verowak
2024-07-03 13:23:34 +0000 UTCAnother actor who fought in WWII and later appeared in this movie is Richard Todd. He played Major Howard, the guy tasked with taking and holding the bridge. ("Hold until relieved.") In real life, he was one of the soldiers who stormed and took that bridge. So, in effect, he was playing the role of his own commanding officer.
Chris Gronau
2024-07-03 09:31:56 +0000 UTCTheodore Roosevelt III survived D-Day, but died of a heart attack six weeks later in July 1944. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on D-Day.
JAKH
2024-07-03 02:18:50 +0000 UTCThe RAF pilot drinking in the Officer's Club at the beginning and wounded & patched with safety pins at the end was actor Richard Burton, whom you saw in "Where Eagles Dare" You saw US General Gavin, who gave the speech to the pathfinders, portrayed by a different actor in "A Bridge Too Far", where he was the paratroop general who was in a bad mood dealing with the British because he cracked his spine in the jump. You also saw German Field Marshal Von Rundstedt in "A Bridge Too Far", again played by a different actor. In real life Hitler blamed him for the success of D-Day and forced him back into retirement until the German lines collapsed into a retreat later in the summer. Then he was brought back out of retirement to try and fix the debacle. This is where he is introduced in the beginning of "A Bridge Too Far" where he is asking the German generals about men, ammunition, fuel, etc. and keeps getting the answer "minimal, minimal, minimal". I don't know if you noticed, but the non-actor playing Eisenhower looked so much like the real general that he was the only one who didn't have a title card saying who he was the first time that he appeared on screen. It was assumed that audiences of the time would recognize him as Eisenhower.
JAKH
2024-07-03 02:01:58 +0000 UTCA good companion to this is the true story drama "Operation Mincemeat" (2021) w/ Colin Firth, based on the book "The Man Who Never Was".
JAKH
2024-07-03 01:39:36 +0000 UTCThis movie is the inspiration for the song "The Longest Day" by the British metal band "Iron Maiden" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbuStnt4WnM
JAKH
2024-07-03 01:36:58 +0000 UTCA great exercise in comparison would be midway. There is the 1976 version, then the new (2019ish) one. I like both for different reasons, have complaints for both for different reasons, combined they do a good complete picture and both offer an excellent 2 sides perspective.
Bubba Fett
2024-07-02 23:48:09 +0000 UTCLots of (then) major actors, in both large and cameo roles)... all took $25K pay, except John Wayne, who demanded $250K. Besides Wayne, Robert Mitchum, pop stars Paul Anka, Tommy Sands, and Fabian, Richard Burton, Roddy McDowall, Red Buttons, Jeffrey Hunter, and many, many more familiar (in the early 1960s) faces.
Cliff Adams
2024-07-02 23:38:47 +0000 UTC
