The Longest Day (film)
The Longest Day is a 180-minute 1962 war film, based on the 1959 book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944.
Trivia
- Sergeant Kaffekanne's last name is from the German for "coffee pot", which he always carries.
- Bill Millin, the piper who accompanies Lord Lovat to Normandy with his bagpipes, played himself in the film. Lord Lovat had ignored a general order against pipers to bring Millin to Normandy, where Millin escaped being shot by German snipers — because they thought he was crazy!
- Richard Todd, who plays the leader of the British Airborne unit that lands at Pegasus Bridge, took part in the real bridge assault on D-Day.
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| ► | Quotes from the film |
| ► | Trivia |
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| ► | External link |
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