THE LONGEST DAY
The
Stills
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 Kieffer (Christian Marquand), and his troops,
are stopped by German fire coming from the casino
>Lord Lovat
(Peter Lawford) 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).
(These folks don't realise that once here on this beach, filmhistory was made)
Finally ‘The Longest Day' comes to an end
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