THE LONGEST DAY The Stills
Irene Demick
(as Janine Boltard) seduces German soldiers on Bènouville bridge
(today its called the Pegasus Bridge)
Irene uses here
two strongest points
Von Rundstedt
(Paul Hartmann) and Blumentritt (Curd Jurgens) watch the parade
RAF Fl.Off.
Richard Campbell (Richard Burton) tells about Johnny,... 'He
bought it'
Major 'Pips'
Priller (Heinz Reincke) wants to hear from Luftwaffe General Wolfgang
Hager where his planes went to!
Luftwaffe
General Wolfgang Hager (Karl John) has tried to explain, in vain, to 'Pips' that the Fatherland
needs protection and that's why the planes have been moved
And Lt.Col.
Vandervoort (John Wayne) wants another dropzone from
Brigadier General James M. Gavin (Robert
Ryan)
Private
Morris (Roddy McDowall) thinks it over on board of one of the ships
which will carry him, and the rest of the 4th Division, to Utah
Beach
General
Erich Marcks (Richard Munch) gets more that just a birthday cake,...
...
also unexpected guests arrive,... 'Gummi Puppen'
Private
'Dutch' Schultz lands, in Normandy, in a tree
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (Paul
Hartmann) has a short night in 'The Longest Day'
Right; Lt.Col. Vandervoort (John Wayne) and
Captain Harding (Steve Forest) 'click' one more time and are ready for their jump from the C-47
Mayor of Ste-Mère-Eglise,
Alexandre Renaud (Georges Wilson, on the left), with a German officer,
see the paratroopers coming down out of the dark sky
In
Ste-Mère-Eglise paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne
Division drop into an inferno
John Steel
(Red Buttons), who is hanging on the bell tower, watches
in horror the scenes below him
Resistance heroin
Janine Boltard (Irene Demick) is trying to purchase a German
to let the train pass
On the next page it becomes daylight during
The Longest Day
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