The Longest Day (1962) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | So Many Great Actors!
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- Thank you Grandaddy Dudester for the Special Request! We both check out the D-Day War Movie jam packed with Star Power, The Longest Day (1962). Here's our reaction to our first time watching.
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Richard Todd fought at Pegasus Bridge, was offered a role as himself but refused, as he thought it could be disrespectful to people ho did not come back . He took the role of his comander instead, wearing the same helmet he did in actual attack.
He played Major Howard who commanded that attack including him at the time. Excellent comment by you.
@@sandbagger57I like the fact the actor was wearing his actual beret from his service in the Para's and all he had to do was change his cap badge for the one that Major Howard had on his beret. I'm afraid though that I'm not sure what the names was of their two units. One of my most favorite movies of all time.
He wasn’t playing his commander, Richard Todd was a Lt in the 7th Parachute Battalion, not in The Ox and Buccs, who were glider borne. At one point he did have to report to Major Howard at the bridge though and this was put in the film. Richard Todd said he found it odd that another actor played himself reporting to the same man he was portraying.
My favourite part of the film, which shows how odd I am, is when Richard Todd changes the ammunition clip on his gun. As a real officer in the war, he had done that so many times that, in the movie, he hardly looks at the gun at all and is able to think of other things and issue orders at the same time. This contrasts with actors who were never in the army who, though they get all the actions right, have to think about what they are doing.
Up the Ox and Bucks!!
Kudos to Eddie Albert, a true WWII hero. Before WWII he secretly worked for Army intelligence photographing German Uboats in Mexican harbors. When war broke out, he enlisted in the Coast Guard. After one yr of service he was discharged from the CG to accept a commission as a Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa when acting as a coxswain on a naval landing craft he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore while under heavy enemy fire and assisted with the rescue of 30 others. Lived to the ripe old age of 99!
And lucky enough to have given us Green Acres. Country comedy. From the 60s.
I met Eddie Albert at a mall in the 80's. He was promoting a movie he was in called Stitches. He had a hard time speaking. He was in his mid to late 70's so that could have been the reason for him struggling to speak. I'm only 58 and I struggle to speak sometimes. Lol. He was a really nice guy, though.
Didn't know about German uboats in Mexican harbors,I wonder why Germany didn't attack America's coastlines,harbors,etc,etc,..
@@kerry-j4m Two groups of saboteurs landed off Florida and Long Island in mid-1942, with targets for destruction. They were quickly rounded up by the F.B.I.
@@kerry-j4m After the USA officially entered the war, U-Boats did operate off the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. From the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's website (part of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior): "During the years 1942 and 1943, a fleet of over 20 German U-boats cruised the Gulf [of Mexico], seeking to disrupt the vital flow of oil carried by tankers from ports in Texas and Louisiana. They succeeded in sending 56 vessels to the bottom; 39 of these are now believed to be in state or Federal waters off Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. After their initial, devastating success, U-boat attacks in the Gulf became rare by the end of 1943 after merchant vessels began cruising in armed convoys."
for anyone curious, the glider troops are shouting "up the Ox and Bucks" when they launch their attack, this is a reference to their regiment the "oxfordshire and buckinghamshire light infantry" who later became the royal green jackets, and whose legacy now continues as 2nd battalion the Rifles, one of the UK's premier light infantry regiments.
Need to finish the book Operation Pegasus Bridge.
Weren't the Ox and Bucks the other half of "Band of Brothers" the book?
@@roberthultz9023 The book is 'Pegasus Bridge' By Stephen Ambrose. Who also wrote 'Band of Brothers'.
@roberthultz9023 No they were British Soldier's Glider Infantry.
@georgesykes394 yes from the regiment "the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire light infantry" that's the regiments name
This is based on a book by Cornelius Ryan, who interviewed participants in the battle from all sides involved. He also wrote a book, A Bridge Too Far, about WWII's Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne assault ever. it was made into a pretty good movie too.
He concluded his "trilogy" with "The Last Battle" about the Battle of Berlin. It was also based on extensive interviews with participants and is the most chilling of the 3.
@@kevinfrank5527 That would make a Great Movie! .... You get the Funding and I'll Direct!
Teddy Roosevelt III known as Jr. was the oldest person to land on the beach in the first wave. He was also the only General to land with the first wave. He was very sick at the time. His son Quentin a Captain also landed in Normandy. Teddy Roosevelt III (jr) died a month after the invasion of a heart attack. Teddy IV served in the Pacific. Teddy V served in Vietnam. They all had distinguished military and public lives.
Oh astonishing! Ask head of german noblemans family ,von Butler'. Since 13th century they served in every war, Germany was involved ....
@@brittakriep2938 I just looked them up. What a history, not just military.
He was awarded the Medal of Honor, like his dad, and thus has gold lettering on his gravestone.
I'm surprised to see this grand old movie getting honored by a current youtube star.
Thank you. This is one of my favorite movies.
Speaking of Sean Connery as Bond; the German Coffee Guy was played by the actor who played 'Goldfinger'.
Auric Goldfinger = Gert Frobe
@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 : Gerd Fröbe was a good circus Clown, during wwll he for the most time served in , troops Entertainment ', not as soldier, because he had bad feet. But in late war, German forces had a Lack of men, so men , being not fully fightable, had to serve in Army. For example my grandfather was soldier, even had lost an eye in childhood by accident. So also Gerd Fröbe became soldier, but in a TV Interview in 1980s, he told, He didn' t like war and Military, so He feeled good, that he was trained as Sanitäter/ medic, so His Task was to save wounded persons.
When you watch the movie, please watch the Scene, when a german staff officer shouted the word , Gurkensalat ' ( cucumber salad) into Telephone. This man , Vicco von Bülow' was real german officer ( Leutnant or Oberleutnant) , holder of Iron Cross second class, and member of prussian noblemans Family ,von Bülow', being known for being officers or officials for decades. But Mr. von Bülow became Not a famous officer, Not an important official, but one of Germanys best comedians!
And the German colonel was played by Curt Jurgens, the villain in The Spy Who Loved Me.
@@davewilliams1157 I enjoyed his movie " I Aim at the Stars ".
@@davewilliams1157 : Curd Jürgens sometimes played german wwll officers, but during wwll, was , as far as i know, imprisoned, for critisicing Hitlers idiology. A german actor, who was from late ww ll until his death decades later often seen as german officer, was Wolfgang Preis ( Preiss?), but i don' t know, if this german actor was very known outside of germanspeaking countries.
At 19:57, the actor RichardTodd is portraying the British commander of that mission to seize the bridge. Incredibly, he was a member of that same glider unit that seized the bridge in real life! We have to remember that this film was made less than 20 years after June 6, 1944. There are other actors in the film who similarly were present for the actual invasion.
At one point in the movie, you see a soldier go up to Richard Todd's character and ask him a question. Richard Todd said that that soldier was actually based on him in real life. That he Richard Todd, the soldier in 1944, did go up and speak to his CO, and that they put that soldier in the movie as a nod to his RL self.
Richard Todd wasn’t a member of that unit, he was a Lt in the 7th Parachute Battalion that reinforced the Ox and bucs at the bridge.
In real life just before the gliders took off for the operation depicted in the movie a big wig officer told Todd among others to transfer from glider 34 to glider 1. In the aftermath of the landings, glider 34 crashed and all on board were killed. In another incident Todd tried to get into a London nightclub to celebrate his passing out of officer school but was turned away because the club was full. Later that night the night club received a direct hit during an air raid and some of his fellow officers who he was supposed to meet up with were killed. Obviously, Richard Todd was never meant to die in WW2 and lived to the ripe old age of 90.
@@davidparris7167He also narrated on an album by the band Dulcimer.
One bit of trivia: actor Kenneth More served as a medic on D-Day. In this film he's brandishing Colin Maud's personal sheleleigh while directing the troops on the beach. However they replaced Maud's German shepherd with a bulldog, feeling it would be more "British".
Oh , Great Dane' is in reality, Deutsche Dogge '.
and he named it Winston, because it lookeed like the English PM.
He also sank the Bismarck. As far as Pinewood Studios was concerned, he won the war single handed.
The British actor portraying the British flyer you could not identify is Richard Burton at the height of his career. His scenes for a Longest Day were filmed in between his filming Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor.
And the last scene with Burton discussing the German soldier with the boots on the wrong feet is actually pretty chilling " Hes Dead, Im crippled, and your lost!"............
The German officer playing with the dog actually survived the war and was a consultant on the film.
He's also a major role in 'The Battle of the Bulge'.
Played Werner Pluskat.
AND co starred in severial others.
Hans Christian Blech
My father was in the first wave at Omaha Beach. How anyone made it is beyond me. My mother was Dutch and lived under the Nazi's for four years. The church that Red Buttons was hanging from has a life size dummy hanging from it today in memory of what happen there.
It also has a stained glass window, donated by the guy played by Red Buttons, which shows the story, him hanging by the parachute from the church steeple, the burning house in the background
Red Buttons played John Steele, the real life paratrooper hanging from the tower. I learned he was from Illinois
War is always terrible but it is hard to imagine how much harder it was for your dads generation to fight the Nazi's or Japan than today's troops fighting the Taliban or Iraq. The casualties were a different order of magnitude.
Richard Todd played Major Howard, the British glider troops taking Pegasus bridge. He actually took part in that precise action as a 24yr old, 18yrs before making this film, and knew Major Howard as a result.
Take this however you want , but I will never forget the story my older brother told me when he was on leave from basic training (Army) in 1965. First day of everyone wearing dress uniforms & hats. The drill sgt absolutely ripping every guy who had his hat tilted even slightly to one side. "You think you're John Wayne?" He then told the story that Wayne always tilted his hat/cap/helmet & it was ridiculed by veterans who actually served because real soldiers never did it. (Wayne never served in the military). "You want to be John Wayne, go become an actor".
Ever since, I can't help but smile when I see Wayne in one of his many military parts...almost always with hat tilted...lol.
The ultimate spot-the-star movie. And what's amazing is that everyone manages to get their moment in the sun.
Too much Red Buttons.
@@larky368 Respectfully disagree.
Rivaled only by "A Bridge Too Far"
@@larky368 " Ding-Dong, Ding-Dong."
The actor that played Scottie on the original Star Trek was wounded on Juno Beach (he lost a couple of fingers from one of his hands). When they filmed the series they made sure not to show his wounds.
James Doohan, Canadian.
Actually he just lost the middle finger on his right hand... the only time that it's shown is during the scene in the search for Spock when they are stealing the Enterprise!
This was Sean Connery's last film role before he got the " gig " as James Bond. Six months before this, he was collecting Un-employment benefits ... Michael Caine remembers that the last time he collected the " Dole " in the early 1960's, Connery was two people in front of him in the queue ...
That person playing the bagpipes was Bill Millin, famous for playing the bagpipes at the Normandy landings. It’s not Scottish but the First Special Service Brigade (Commandos) under Lord Lovat - a British brigade. It likely contained Scottish volunteers as well as part of the British forces. Millin was actually Canadian
Millan was born in Canada to Scottish Parents who went back home to Scotland when Bill was 3 years of age.
Lovat was Scots. The majority of his commandos were Scots. The SAS and SBS were formed by Scots. The main reason being, all the commando training took place in Scotland, so it was easier to get willing volunteers from Scots regiments.
This was THE war movie I grew up with as a kid. Even back in the 80s it was already old, but my parents liked it, and so did I. I've been to the beaches of Normandy when I was 5. I've been to the museums there. I returned there 2 years ago with my wife and kids. When my grandma was 13 her family had US troops staying at her house while they were on the way to the frontline of the Ardennes after having liberated our capital (Luxembourg)
One of those soldiers is almost 100 now and still alive. Our families are still in touch, after contact was reestablished 20 years ago or so.
It used to be on TV every year around Memorial Day or June 6th.
One of the most misleading parts of Saving Private Ryan was the distance from the shore to the seawall where the landing forces could find some initial protection. It appeared fairly short in the film. On Omaha Beach at the time of the invasion (low tide), it was 450 yards.
Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was in the first wave at Utah Beach as well as two other amphibious landing spots during the war. He died of a heart attack in France on July 12, 1944. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Now I know the distance was longer and the gun fire was so heavy it kept them pinned down, the question I have with Omaha was the height thickness of the German defense wall they had to smash through. Given the timing of The Longest Day vs Saving Private Ryan I'm assuming that Longest Day's wall was far more accurate.
Anthony Hopkins was in the WWII movie A Bridge Too Far about Operation Market Garden. That was also cover in Band of Brothers when they jumped into Holland. It's a pretty great movie worth checking out too.
Check out his performance in A Lion in Winter (1968)
Seconded!
@@simonfrederiksen104 Along with Timothy Dalton as John Lackland
"Sarge I got a weapon!"
"Well good for you, son."
The quotes probably wrong 😂 But I love that bit
Sir. He wasn’t a sergeant.
Sir I got a weapon.
@@davidwoolbright3675 You've brightened my day.
Robert Mitchum, the actor who speaks of "200,000 of them, rpobably seasick as hell"... he was an American destroyer captain opposite Kurt Jurgens in "The Enemy Below".
The Genreal lecturing John Wayne is Eddie Albert, most famous for the TV series, "Green Acres".
Actually Eddie Albert portrayed a colonel not a general in this movie. Colonel Thompson
The photographer best friend in Roman Holiday.
Eddie Albert played the officer who was paired with Robert Mitchum. John Wayne's commanding officer was played by Robert Ryan.
This is my dad's favourite movie. He would play it at night and I would catch him watching as I come down from my room. Thank you for reacting to it.
It's one of the best war films.... you two and the little superstar, of course, have a great channel. Thank you for keeping the classic alive. This film is loaded with amazing actors. Thanks again 🙂👍
My father (himself a WWII veteran) used to be very scathing about John Wayne swaggering around acting the tough guy when he spent the war making movies while Jimmy Stewart was a bomber pilot.
Richard Burton (really Richard Jenkins) was Welsh, like Anthony Hopkins. They were both from the same region in Wales and their native accent would've been similar - they sound much alike (although Burton's voice and mastery of it would've made him a fantastic Saruman if he wasn't already busy being dead when the LOTR movies were made. BTW he's chilling as O'Brien in 1984 and his performance as the narrator in Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds musical was brilliant).
by all accounts I have heard Wayne was a fraud and an arsehole.
Great actor Burton
Yeah I guess we should only hire war veterans to play soldiers in movies. Solid high IQ logic 🙄
I’ve heard recordings of Burton’s voice before vocal training and it sounds quite different - much more high pitched. Interesting stuff!
Im from 1983, so never saw the rise of John Wayne as the tough guy cowboy, and never really understood it, he always looked old and overweight so never saw him as this tough guy. His movies are also almost never mentioned as the best, beside True Grit, and i even would pick the remake as a better movie.
The bespectacled GI season on the boat in the rain is also a rather famous actor... you saw him as Cornelius in "Planet of the Apes" and as Goldie Hawn's manservant in "Overboard".
He was also the voice of the brave little robot "VINCent" in "The Black Hole".
Roddy McDowall "How Green was my Pasture" "My Friend Flicka" "Lassie Come Home" - etcetera, etcetera... actor legend 🤪
That was How Green Was My Valley, not pasture.@@christiankirkwood3402
He also voiced the Mad Hatter in the best animated Batman series.
@@stevetheduck1425 He was the Bookworm in the 1966 "Batman" TV series.
I worked for an old guy who went in before the first wave. He was a combat engineer, went in to try and clear obstacles. Told some interesting stories. One especiallly about racial disharmony near the end in Berlin.
Great movie, one of my favourites but - it left out one of the most difficult beaches and the Canadians that fought there. The beach? JUNO and I wish it was included to honour the million Canadians that fought in WW2.
Well, Canada got one long shot where the German pilots strafed the beaches and one mention: "British and Canadians moving steadily inland." I wish it had been that easy. I had two uncles on Juno beach, one of whom was wounded as he stepped off the boat. Two others joined the fight later. My father had been in a POW hospital in Germany for six months by that time, wounded and captured at Ortona.
One of the best classic war movies. It was hard to imagine anyone doing a better job at depicting D-day until Spielberg said hold my beer (although he obviously only showed a small part of it)
I watched this so many times in the theater. I come from a military family. My father and my uncle served in WW2. They went on to serve in Korea along with my step-father. Interestingly my grandmother, a very small lady about 4 foot 10 inches or so, worked on P-38 Lightning aircraft. They needed small people to do the work in those long skinny tail appendages of the plane.
Glad you watched it and reacted to it.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Seen this many times and still enjoy watching it. Very realistic about the details. Of course, at the time blood and gore were very restricted but still the battle scenes keep you focused.
Looks there your fan base might learn some history. You should do "The Battle of Britain" next.
In the 80s I was part of the 82nd Airborne that did a re enactment jump in Normandy and St Mere Eglis. I can only imagine doing it back then.
The British CO (Hold until relieved...) at Pegasus Bridge was played by Richard Todd. In reality on D Day, Todd was among the first group of British troops to arrive at Pegasus Bridge to relieve the Glider Assault force....
I always giggle when John Wayne throws his cup , it’s when he starts running kind of funny, still my childhood hero ! Thanks y’all
Grew up watching this film on UK TV, from around 1965 onwards. A regular in the Christmas schedules. One of those films where you know what the next line is going to be. The actual dog on the beach was an Alsatian/German Shepherd but they changed it to a bull dog, because the German had an Alsatian. Richard Burton had a stormy on off marriage with Elizabeth Taylor. He was also famous for loving his drink a bit too much.
Of the gliders that landed at Pegasus Bridge, it was remarked that it was one of the most amazing feats of flying, at night, no engines and all turns timed by dead reckoning.. the lead glider stopped inside the barbed wire defending the bridge. Lead by John Howard (played by Richard Todd) the "coup de main" attack held the vital bridge until relieved. A Sgt Thornton stopped a German tank counter attacking, with a single shot from a Piat anti tank mortar (he only had 3 Piat bombs on the only intact Piat!) - also considered one of the most import single engagements of D-Day. When Stephen E Ambrose was writing "Band of Brothers" he was so blown away by the story of Pegasus Bridge, he actually wrote a whole book on it. I was fortunate to meet Therese Gondree (the café owners wife) on a visit in 1984, a few months before she passed. Memorable.
One of all-time favorite movies. Yes, just like _'Tora, Tora, Tora'_ you see events unfold from both sides.
I am glad you two watched it.
You heard Robert Mitchum's distinctive voice as the narrator for "Tombstone"
There is an excellent WW2 movie with Robert Mitchum:
"Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" (1957)
It is a great movie. I remember seeing first time at my grandmother. didn't speak English France or German. still love it.
One of the most famous war movie song ever, "The Longest Day" by Paul Anka. The singer himself was in the film.
Many men came here as soldiers
Many men will pass this way
Many men will count the hours
As they live the longest day
.
.
Many men the mighty thousands
Many men to victory
Marching on right into battle
In the longest day in history
By the way, did anyone recognize the young actor Robert Wagner? He played as the one-eyed patch Number One in Austin Powers movies. In this classic war film, he played a 2nd Ranger soldier who bravely climbed up the cliffs of Point Du Hoc to silence the beach guns aimed at Utah Beach.
For the Allies, and the Germans…it will be the longest day.-General Erwin Rommel to staff. They didn’t know when or where…but knew it was coming.
More than stars and awards its the stirring inspiring true story of brave soldiers on that Day of days that makes this movie unique and its broud scope showing both sides of the battle is impressive
The who looks a little like Anthony Hopkins is famous movie star Sir Richard Burton; infamous for his love affair with Elizabeth Taylor, famous for his role as Mark Antony in "Cleopatra" (played by Elizabeth Taylor), and more popular with men in his role opposite Clint Eastwood in, "Where Eagles Dare".
One of his last movies, was a good but obscure military movie called "The Wild Geese", which also had an ensemble cast; Richard Burton, Richard Harris (Dumbledore, to you), Roger Moore (James Bond), Stuart Granger (who was in North to Alaska with John Wayne).
Worth watching, IMO.
Hopkins and Burton both coming from the same town, in Wales.
The actor who played Pluskat,the officer with the dog, at the shore bunker
was played by the same guy who played the sergeant, aid de camp, of the German
Tank unit commander in " Battle of the Bulge ".
The person playing Eisenhower is Henry Grace, not an actor but a set designer at MGM studios. Cast, obviously, for his uncanny resemblance to the general.
I watched "The Longest Day" for the first time in 2023, and it became my fav WW2 film instantly. I have watched it again a few weeks ago to mark the 80th anniversary of D Day.
"Pork Chop Hill" (1959) depicts a real battle from the Korean War where exhausted soldiers were forced to keep fighting to hold onto a hill that had no strategic value. The U.N. was unwilling to withdraw because relinquishing the hill would have shown a lack of resolve that would have given an advantage to the North Koreans and Communist Chinese in the concurrent negotiations, but because the hill had no strategic value, the U.N. was also unwilling to risk additional lives by sending reinforcements.
Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore who's story is depicted in We Were Soldier's fought on Pork Chop Hill.
Eddie Albert ( Colonel with Robert Mitchum) was a big hero at the battle for Tarawa November 20 1943. Saved dozens of wounded men and shuttled them off the beach. Ne never talked about it
The soldiers in the Point Du Hoc cliff scaling sequence were played by teen idol singers Fabian, Paul Anka, and Tommy Sands. Also actor George Segal(THE GOLDBERGS) and Robert Wagner(AUSTIN POWERS).
My Dad served in the 1st Infantry Division. Before he went into combat in North Africa he had $50 he wanted to get rid of because he didn’t want to carry around a lot of cash. He found a blackjack game…..and won $1,800.
Hi Guys, it`s really great to see someone finally react to this amazing film. This one & (Tora, Tora, Tora) & (Where Eagles Dare) are 3 of my favourite action War films. Amazingly, you are the only one`s to react to all three. Richard Todd the British commander of the glider force that captured Pegasus bridge, was a very popular Irish/British actor.
He was himself a D-Day veteran, he was part of the paratrooper force that arrived to support the glider force at that Pegasus bridge. Where he met the very officer he later portrayed in this film. The actor who portrayed Pvt. John Steele who got hung up on the church, was the U.S. Actor/comedian (Red Buttons).
Please continue to react to these older classic war movies, they should be seen by more of the younger generation.
The two guys rolling the dice in the crap game (one of which gets hung up parachuting in) are Red Buttons and Jeffrey Hunter.
Hunter's other big role was in "The Searchers" with John Wayne... and as Captain Christopher Pike, Captain of the USS Enterprise before James Tiberius Kirk.
Red Buttons has been in a lot of movies over the years, but the role I remember him most fondly in was as "Pockets" in the John Wayne movie "Hatari!".
The general to whom John Wayne submits his request for a new drop zone is played by Robert Ryan, who was also the commanding general in "Battle of the Bulge" which I mentioned in another comment.
And he was Colonel Breed in "The Dirty Dozen"
@@ChicagoDB And one of three Roberts in "Crossfire," along with Robert Mitchum and Robert Young. Recommended Ryan movies: "On Dangerous Ground" and "The Wild Bunch."
The coffee man is Gert Frobe who played Goldfinger to Sean Connery's James Bond a couple of years after this movie.
Spotted Tom Tryon. Just finished his Night Of The Moonbow. He retired from acting and became a writer.
Try 'Is Paris Burning?'.....similar type of movie with lots of stars at the time.
"Battleground" is another good WW2 movie about the Battle of the Bulge.
Harry Potter Fun Fact: Near the start of the film, when every one is listening to the radio for their resistance code words, you see a British officer talking to another soldier, who asking what they mean? The British pilot says to him, something one the lines of, "I've told you before, each line is a codeword for different Resistance groups..."
The actor that plays the British Pilot, is a wonderful actor called Leslie Phillips. He's been in SO many comedy films, and shows like The Carry On movies, and even radio shows like The Navy Lark, and TV shows. But most people on hearing his distinctive voice, will recognise is as the Voice of the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter movies.
What gets me watching the reaction .. and it was good .. is just how young you guys are. The actors who you don't know .. just makes me think of how fleeting is fame. A new generation and .. you are like .. who is that?
51 years old and somehow this one flew under my radar! Great movie!
My Uncle landed on Omaha with the 926th Signal Battalion.
He kept the communication lines functioning as a telephone linesman. Went through the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium 🇧🇪
My dad was in Patton's 3rd Army (41-46) 687th field artillery. He hit Normandy after the beach was taken..... They lost a howitzer in the drink so he was put on litter duty... (Picking up what was left of bodies on the beach)........ One year later after the bulge, the hedgerows, Bastogne....One of his last duties was "cleaning up" Buchenwald (Burying what was left of the Jews that were there).....He saw a LOT of death in a year or so......
My grandfather was an engineer in Pattons 3rd, from D+1 all the way to the Remagen bridge where was was wounded (bad, almost didnt make it) I wonder if they ever met? Small world!
God Almighty bless him.
The man in the white jumper was Lord Lovatt, a Scottish lord, of the Commandos hence the piper in battle. They were not necessarily scots Lord Lovatt and the piper Bill Millin were but the rest rest were just Commandos.
Richard Burton has a very similar voice to Anthony Hopkins, beautiful South Wales accent, mixed with a lot of alcohol damage.
The man playing Eisenhower is Henry Grace. He was a set designer at MGM studios. He was often mistaken for the actual Dwight D. Eisenhower.
You make Brandy by distilling wine.
The actor who played Eisenhower in this movie was Henry Grace , looked just like IKE and was many times mistaken to be IKE .
The actual invasion beaches, Utah, Omaha, Sword, Juno and Gold.were used and not as Spielberg who filmed in Ireland on Ballinesker beach.
Director used US Marines when he filmed grapple hook scene , climbing to Pointe du Hoc, on D-Day 81 men died , many from falling down from ropes and ladders.
Near filming locations there are the graves of the 9350 American soldiers, 2500 brits, 200 Canadians and 6000 German in a separate cemetery, whom died during invasion.
Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth cemetery of WW 2 in France , 4144 British Commonwealth burials and 500 other nationalities.
Great movie seen many times, so many actors were WW2 Vets back then , and if you watch movies before the war and look up the actors some were killed in WW2, I was watching an old Boris Karloff movie and two of the main actors were killed in the war , one was an officer, both died in some big battles heroically as so many others did
Just a fun tip.. the Sherman tank you see at the beach was one they found scouting the location.. they fixed it up and put it in the show.. That movie is greatness
Interesting to see Gert Fröbe and Sean Connery in that film. They played against each other later in a film you might have heard about: Goldfinger.
No wonder goldfinger is so bent to kill him 😂
the Actor Richard Todd, who played Major John Howard, the officer in charge of the assault on what is now known as Pegasus Bridge actually took part in the assault as a member of 6th parachute regiment, and as far as i know, is the only cast member who was actually part of the D-Day operations.
also i think it was the first time where the different nations, spoke there own language on film. previously the spoke English with an accent
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died a month after D-Day due to heart problems. Throughout World War II, Roosevelt suffered from health issues, due to arthritis from old World War I injuries, and also had heart trouble, which he kept secret from army doctors and his superiors. He was at 56, the oldest man and the only General to land in the first wave on D-Day. Gen. Patton wrote that Roosevelt was "one of the bravest men I've ever known", and served as a pallbearer at his funeral.
4:54 - 4:57 Hey, it's Stromberg from *The Spy Who Love Me*
39:22 - 39:26, Damn it, Goldfinger is in this too. All we need now is 007 to appear... 43:43 God damn it.
I'm sure someone has already said this, but the poems in French were broadcast from England to carry messages to the Resistance. The also sent just random phrases -- "John has a long mustache" was one of the phrases to indicate the invasion was imminent.
The scenes of the resistance fighters in France receiving the coded radio messages was copied in Red Dawn(1984). The American teenage resistance fighters in Red Dawn are sitting around a campfire, listening to "Radio Free America" when code phrases like "John has a long mustache" and "the chair is against the wall" are broadcast, presumably as covert messages to resistance groups behind enemy lines.
And most of us knew exactly where those lines came from when that movie came out.
@@ruthsaunders9507 Yes, exactly. I think that's why they were included; to stress the idea that this time, WE were the people who were fighting back against a foreign invader army occupying OUR country.
I think(?) this is the frist time anyone ahs reacted to this on UA-cam. Kudos for doing so for this excellent film. Please consdier doing "Is Paris Burning?" (another WW2 moive about the 1994 uprising and liberation of Paris).
This movie was based on
a non-fiction book about D-Day
written by...wait for it...Cornelius RYAN.
Btw, "Bitte" is German for "Please".
The French poem was a signal to the Resistance ; the first part tells them the Invasion is imminent; the second one meant Invasion within 48 hours.
I remember watching The Longest Day for the first time on a 10" b/w tv in the early 1970's and the last time watching it on DVD 10 years ago with a 40" HDTV.
One of the actors in this movie who is playing a general was a runner in the actual battle, and he delivered messages to the general he was playing. There is a scene in the movie that depicts one of these deliveries, and so you have an actor, playing a real life general who is interacting with another actor who is playing the actor who is playing the general.
The actor said in an interview later that it was a very strange to be depicting a historical event he remembered being a part of, only he is playing the part from the other side of that conversation.
The film has the opening 4 notes of Beethoven's 5th, because that musical phrase is meant to be taken as ...- Morris code for the letter V.
Not a General, Major Howard who commanded the glider bourne troops who took Pegasus Bridge was played by Richard Todd. In real life, Lieutenant Todd, not really a runner, was part of the force that eventually relieved Pegasus Bridge and did speak to Major Howard that day. Richard Todd had fought his way to Germany by the end of the war. He left the Army with the rank of Major and resumed his successful acting career.
"French fighters"
Nope. British. Typhoon fighter-bombers.
love this film...St Mere Eglise & the Ouisteram attack were awesome bits of film making
This is one of those films I never get tired of seeing.
First time I got to share with others. Thanks.
This movie has the gung ho propaganda vibe that WWII movies used to have in 1960 and before. But a lot of people who had actually been to war knew that war was a lot more horrible that this movie shows it to be. The author who wrote the book "The Longest Day" was Cornelius Ryan, and he also wrote the book "A Bridge Too Far" about Operation Market Garden in Holland. You noticed that Sean Connery is in this movie, and he was offered a role in the movie "A Bridge Too Far". At first he refused, because he did not want to be in another movie that romanticizes war. But after he read the script, he decided to take the role, because that movie portrayed the horrors of war more realistically. "A Bridge Too Far" is a good movie, although it could use some editing to shorten some of it. But you guys should probably still watch and react to it. You will see another battle you saw in "Band of Brothers", but will see parts that did not involve Easy Company. Like the British 1st Airborne that Easy Company helped rescue in Episode 5. You will see why they needed help. It's worth a watch.
Richard Burton, husband of Elizabeth Taylor. "Elizabeth Taylor was the first actress to earn $1,000,000 for a movie role (in Cleopatra (1963))."
The obstacles on the beach are designed to tear the bottom out of landing boats. They were further up the beach because the Allies were expected to land at high tide, meaning less open ground to be exposed on before reaching cover.
Instead, the Allies landed at low tide to avoid the obstacles.
Some of those obstacles also had explosives attached to them to blow the boats to smithereens, too.
Carrying the boats: those were Engineers and the boats were intended to carry their equipment ashore.
Not a war film, but a docudrama you might enjoy in a similar vein to this (and featuring some of the same cast), is 'A Night to Remember' (1958), which recounts the sinking of the Titanic.
With the Longest Day having been made less than twenty years after the Allied Invasion of Normandy, many of the actors who were veterens were still young enough to credibly play themselves, or to take roles similar to what they actually experienced.
Sean Connery filmed his scenes while his flight was laid over on his way to Jamaica to film Dr. No.
Clicked on video, heard "I would have the nervous shits the whole time", subscribed...🤣🤣
General Teddy Roosevelt Jr.'s Jeep was "Rough Rider", after his father's famous old outfit.
Didn't see it in this edit, but the Germans repeating "poopin doomies" stuck with me forever.
"Gummipuppen" - "rubber dolls"
Fun fact: they actually considered getting Ike to play himself, but ultimately decided that he was too old by that point and scrapped the idea.
Gotta say, this has been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. Glad to see it getting some appreciation!
The French resistance was also called the Maquis. Maquis is a bush that not only has thorns, but a sticky, unpleasant sap. Since the resistance was meant to slow down the Germans and cause them trouble,mit was a fitting name.
The transports like the infantry and tank landing ships weren't very big nor steady on the seas. The infantry ships also weren't really meant for long stays. So all those men using the facilities heavily, crammed in like they were with no air conditioning or even much ventilation, it was terrible. Bear in mind that most of the men were loaded aboard from the previous day when they were first scheduled to launch. It was deemed better to leave them aboard rather than unload and reload for various reasons.
The small tank that took the bash was called a Bren carrier. The Bren gun was a Brtish light machine gun, the thing with the magazine sitcking out of the top. The vehicle had light armor and was used for a number of roles.
Gliders were used for a few reasons. Mainly they were used to deliver soldiers by air in a cohesive unit rather than than having them scattered around like paratroops usually were, kind of like helicopters are now. Supplies and even jeeps and antitank guns could even be carried by some models. They were fairly quiet but fragile, and once cut from the tow plane they didn't stay in the air for long. Landings tended to be more controlled crashes and there tended to be injuries. They were also not very stable and some crashed or broke up while being towed or plunged straight down when cut loose.
Lastly, the big gun on the roof of the casino was probably a 20mm, similar to the one the Germans used in "Saving Private Ryan", only with a fixed mount.
this film , a bridge too far and the great escape are some of my favorites... i have my grandpa to thank for that.. hes no longer around anymore but he had quite a dvd collection of older films
A while back I recalled a short story on TV that has a statue in St. Mere Iglese of the American soldier who hung from their church during D-Day. Not sure if it is still there.
A young Robert Mitchum played a young US Navy sailor in the film " The Enemy Below ".
the piper playing the bagpipes is actually the man who DID pipe the troops ashore on D-day......
I knew personally Sir Richard Todd. World famous actor but few knew he was there fighting.
That is the only thing I wish. That you knew all of the famous actors and actresses when they showed up on the screen. The British man you thought was Anthony Hopkins was Richard Burton husband of Elizabeth Taylor, who together were the first truly iconic power couple of the modern era.