The Longest Day is a movie directed by Ken Annakin and Andrew Marton in 1962 and based on the book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan, first published in 1959. The movie features John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Curd Jürgens, and others.
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Storyline
Shot in a docudrama style, the film opens in the days leading up to D-Day, concentrating on events on both sides of the English channel. Also shown is the uncertainty of German commanders regarding whether this is a feint in preparation for Allied crossings at the Strait of Dover, where the senior German staff had always assumed that the invasion would begin.
Movie vs Book
Year
1962
Minutes
178
Movie Rate
7.80
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Longest Day
Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton
Country: USA
Year: 1962
Length: 2h58m
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Year
1959
Pages
350
Book Rate
8.66
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Book
The Longest Day
Subtitle: When Cowards Became Men and Men Became Heroes
Author: Cornelius Ryan
Country: USA
First published in: 1959
Length: 350 pages
Genre: Non Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“It’s often quite an adversarial relationship between a novelist and the people adapting their work, because a big part of the job is discarding material.”
DAVID NICHOLLS (Writer and Screenwriter)
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