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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 1687
Released: May 23, 2006 |
| Our Price: $12.23 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition):
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
The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) 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.
