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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 32859
Released: May 21, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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
The Longest Day Reviews:
Great movie - inferior version 
2009-12-07 - I gave four stars because I think the movie itself deserves five, but this DVD version only deserves three. This is a great classic for all the reasons mentioned in other reviews - Great performances, excellent script, and the engrossing telling of a many-faceted historical story in a coherent manner. This DVD version has its problems, however. On the plus side, I like it because the subtitles are below the actual film, thus not impacting the movie itself. On a TV, this means that you need to use the clearer (but smaller) 4/3 aspect instead of "zooming" or using "full screen" or you miss the sub-titles. This may bother some, but I found it an advantage. On the negative side, at times I found the picture too dark to clearly see what was going on. Also, there were no real special features except theatrical trailers. With such a big, detailed historical film, this is a big disappointment, as more background on both the events and the making of the film would be very helpful. I will probably eventually "trade up" to blu-ray.
Gang Oh and Stome that beach 
2009-09-30 - What Stars and what action. Any collector of war movies, like me have to have this gold standard movie for their collection. I saw the movie in the theatre when I was a kid and it wow me, then any Harry Potter would ever could. I seen a colorized version, but love the black and white one. This movie never gets old. It get better with age. Even if all the stars are gone.
Longest Day - an epic movie
2009-09-22 - I had seen this movie when I was a teenager and it first came out. It was a great movie then and holds even more meaning as I have learned more about my fathers job during D-Day. The movie has great picture quality which I did not expect. One of the great movies about the landing on Normandy and Omaha Beach.
The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
2009-09-13 - My Husband had this movie on VHS, it was so danaged. So I bought it on DVD . He has watched it over and over again.. just loves it Highly reccomended
Excellent war film
2009-09-13 - A clasic war film from World War II, excellent sound track and a lot of good actors in this historic film.
