It takes me back — not to D-Day itself, when I was in knee pants, but to the 18th anniversary thereof in 1962. Darryl Zanuck’s The Longest Day brought to stirring cinematic life on that ...

notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day" ...

Chances are that the search will throw up the British actor Richard Burton, who played the role in the seminal war film The Longest Day, released in 1962. The story of Campbell, as depicted in the ...

Starring acting legends Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, and John Wayne, "The Longest Day" takes viewers to June 6, 1944, and shows how the U.S. Army and Allied forces invaded Normandy ...