The longest day
1962
DVD
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
Item Details
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (178 minutes) : sound, black and white. ; 4 3/4 inches.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby Digital 4.0, 3.0, 1.0
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: G.
Other Title: Title on container Darryl F. Zanuck's The Longest day
Notes:
- Title from container.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
- Based on the book by Cornelius Ryan.
- D-Day 50th Anniversary original black and white version of the motion picture, including the original Movietone News announcement of the invasion and the original movie trailer.
- Photography, Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz ; editor, Samuel E. Beetley ; music, Maurice Jarre.
- John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd, Red Buttons, Richard Beymer, Robert Ryan, Mel Ferrer.
- DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 4.0, 3.0, 1.0.
- For private home use only.
- Audio tracks available in English, Spanish and French with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- 2233464
- FOX163258
Control Number: 521018
UPC:
- 024543234647
- 024543234654
Series:
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy -- Fiction.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Annakin, Ken, film director.
- Beetley, Samuel E., actor.
- Beymer, Richard, 1939- actor.
- Bourgoin, Jean, 1913-1991, actor.
- Burton, Richard, 1925-1984, actor.
- Buttons, Red, 1919-2006, actor.
- Connery, Sean, actor.
- Ferrer, Mel, actor.
- Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982, actor.
- Jarre, Maurice, actor.
- Marton, Andrew, 1904-1992, film director.
- Mitchum, Robert, actor.
- Ryan, Cornelius, screenwriter.
- Ryan, Cornelius. Longest day, June 6, 1944. [DVD].
- Ryan, Robert, 1909-1973, actor.
- Steiger, Rod, 1925-2002, actor.
- Todd, Richard, 1919-2009, actor.
- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., film distributor.
- Wayne, John, 1907-1979, actor.
- Wicki, Bernhard, 1919-2000, film director.
- Wottitz, Walter, actor.
- Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979, film producer.