The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

• Patton
• A Bridge Too Far
• Midway (Collector's Edition)
• Battle of the Bulge
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
• Battle of Britain
• In Harm's Way
• Twelve O'Clock High (Special Edition)
• The Great Escape (2-Disc Collector's Set)
• The Dirty Dozen

Like the Battle Of Britain, El Alamein, the Coral Sea, Midway, the Normandy invasion plays a pivotal role in the recovery and preservation of a free Western Europe. The use of Messerschmidt bf-108's was glaring, and of course most of the cast was too old, like John Wayne as Gen. At least this isn't colorized, which some people think would enhance this film. We were thrilled, but since we were watching through our clear 10 year old eyes, we could spot a "fakey" movie when we saw it. The scenes of Omaha & Utah beaches were too wide open, the weather too good. I feel the best battle scenes are around the fortified casino in Ouistreham.

The bottom line: this isn't a "great" movie, only a fair one, but the events depicted are pivotal to civilization. And "The Longest Day" played a pivotal role in the preservation of 20th Century Fox, make Fox safe for reality TV The cinematographer should have concentrated on quality of image, rather than always going for sweeping views of the beaches, where the 2- or 3 thousand extras were swallowed up by the vastness of the undertaking. Still, at least this was not "woven around the love of a man and a woman", and this is a decent interpretation of the events around the D-Day invasion. James Gavin(no wonder his ankle broke, the Duke weighed about 500 pounds), or was too phoney, like Paul Anka.

If the panzer reserves were closer to the beaches, if the weather was worse, or too fine, the Allies could easily have been thrown back into the sea. The first weekend The Longest Day opened, my buddy & I rode the bus 14 miles into Seattle to see this. HEY, I am KIDDING about that- I'm sick of war flicks where so-called artistic license is taken to overemphasize, maximize, or invent the American contribution, such as in the equally overrated "The Great Escape", and "U-571". Personally, when I think of the war in the Pacific, I think in color, for the ETO, it's black & white, "The Great Escape" notwithstanding. I've felt that for years.

I've just been listening to a BBC program called "And The Academy Award Goes To." when I heard a film reviewer make a sacrilegious statement, "The Longest Day is not a very good movie". The contribution of the Brits, Commonwealth Forces, and French were overexpanded, everyone knows the US did this alone.

While Lawrence is a great film also, "The Longest Day" is a greater and more important achievement and it continues to annoy me to this day that it did not win the best picture Oscar. No, Sean Connery, among numerous others. airborne division disasterous drop in German-occupied Ste. (Like other films of this period the end-credits are shockingly short. (You can see a scene not in the film briefly in the trailer included). Starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton and a pre-Dr. If you have never seen this incredibly epic and well-made film, you should grab the DVD or blu-ray as soon as possible, you won't be dissappointed.

This film lost the best picture Oscar to "Lawrence of Arabia" and amazingly only won 2 technical Oscars. The colorized version was pretty good and should have been included with the recent DVD and blu-ray release. I have this film on video and DVD. Mere Eglise, the 2 Luftwaffe plans strafing the 2 British beaches, the Ranger division's incredible attack of the German-held Pointe du Hoc and especially, the French Commando raid on the french town of Ouestram with one long several minute helicoptor shot that has to be seen to be believed.

The film had three directors and the massive action sequences are still breathtaking: The 82nd. (The only film I can think of with a better cast is probably "How the West Was Won).

I remember seeing it at my local theater at age 13 in 1963, a year after its first run reserved-seat engagement on Broadway. and have yet to tire of it.

While it was nice that they added a few extra features on its most recent DVD release, I truly wish they could have located a few deleted scenes. In 1994, on the 50th anniversary of D-Day, a colorized version of this film was released on video, (the film is in black and white).

I watch it every June 6th. Other than the James Bonds, this is my favorite film and my favorite war film.

Today the credits on a film of this size would last ten minutes).

Thus it is why I rate it at 3 out of 5. It does have an all star cast. It has great action and fine actors through out the movie. I think it should be remastered with color (colorized) and with 5.1 sound added. Enjoyed this War movie, but it is in black and white. It is on blu-ray with great picture detail but sound is not quite 5.1 nor is it colorized.

I find it incredible that a film that was made in 1962 and is about how our two country's came together in battle has been released with the Region locked, what justification can there be, that the US gets the film, but we in Europe can't buy it, I can understand if it was a new film but come on, made in 1962, a film about europe, stars many european stars of the day, a conflict we shared but I can't buy it in the UK, this stinks, so much for investing in Blue-Ray at least HDDVD was region free.

This is a great film for the events that happened on D-Day. I wish they had John Wayne in the 101st, oh well still a great movie