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'
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
Sergeant
Kaffeeklatsch (Gert Froebe)
is getting in a moment
the greatest shock of his live
Lieutenant
Colonel Ocker (Peter van Eyck) doesn’t believe a word Major
Pluskat,
on the other side of the line, is telling him,
that there are 5000 ships moving his way
116th
Regiment, 29th Infantry Division storm Omaha Beach,...
... and suffer great
losses. Sgt. Fuller (Jeffrey Hunter) yells for a medic
Von Rundstedt
(Paul Hartmann) orders Blumentritt (Curt Jurgens)
to ask
Hitler to release the Panzer reserves
(but Hitler is asleep and can’t be disturbed)
Lord Lovat
(Peter Lawford) approaches Sword Beach,...
... here
he runs into the mayor of Colleville (Bourville)
Beachmaster
Capt. Colin Maud (Kenneth More) doesn’t have the time
to be bothered by a 'war
correspondent'
Lt. Sheen (Stuart Whitman)
is pointing out the situation
at Ste-Mère-Eglise to Lt.Col.
Vandervoort (Wayne)
2nd
Battalion, US Rangers approaching Pointe du
Hoc,...
... moments
later the storming of the complex begins,…
... with rope ladders
and enter hooks the Rangers start their climb to the top,…
... where
this Ranger (Robert Wagner) also discovers that the guns are not placed
At Utah Beach
Brig.Gen. Teddy Roosevelt Jr. (Henry Fonda) points out
where
he wants his headquarters
In the studio,
with background projection, Heinz Reincke (Priller) begins his attack
over the beaches of ‘Gold and Juno’ (westward towards 'Omaha',
but in the movie
they fly to the east towards 'Sword' Beach)
together
with his wingman 'Bergsdorf' (at the time it was Heinz Wodarczyk)
Erwin Rommel (Werner Hinz) is flabbergasted to hear
that the Allied invasion has started,...
'Normandy?!,... Normandy?!'
Manfred (Michael
Hinz) and Frau Rommel (Ruth Hausmeister) realize that the party is over
Lt. General
Omar Bradley receives disturbing messages from Omaha
Beach
But General
Cota (Robert Mitchum) saves the day with his inspirational attitude
The survivors on
Omaha taking up positions for a break out,…
... moments later,
when the seawall is breached, they storm into 'Vierville' (Île de Ré)
Port-en-Bessin, the place where the attack on the casino of
Ouistreham was reenacted
French
commando leader Kiefer (Christian Marquand), and his troops,
are stopped by German fire coming from the casino
Lord Lovat
(Peter Lawton) arrives with his commando's,
to relieve Major Howard
(Richard Todd) and his paratroopers at Pegasus
Bridge
Lt.Col.
Vandervoort (John Wayne) and his troops have secured Ste-Mère-Eglise
John Steel
(Red Buttons) explains to Lt. Sheen (S. Whitman) that he is deaf,
because he hung for eight hours beside the ringing bells of the tower
Also Fl.Off.
Campbell (Richard Burton) is wounded
and is getting support from
'Dutch' Schultz (Richard Beymer)
A 'deleted'
scene,...
Major Pluskat (Hans Christian Blech) standing wounded
besides a crashed Allied WACO zwever
General Cota
(Mitchum) is satisfied to see his men exit 'Omaha Beach' (Île de Ré)
Finally ‘The Longest Day' comes to an end
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