The Longest Day
May 22 / 7:30 pm & May 24 / 2:00 pm
Starring John Wayne, Robert Ryan, and Richard Burton
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
While clearing a section of the Normandy beach near Pointe du Hoc, the crew unearthed a tank that had been buried in the sand since the original invasion. Mechanics cleaned it off, fixed it up and it was used in the movie as part of the British tank regiment.
Henry Grace was not an actor when cast as Dwight D. Eisenhower, but his remarkable resemblance to Eisenhower got him the role.
During the filming of the landings at Omaha Beach, the extras appearing as American soldiers didn’t want to jump off the landing craft into the water because they thought it would be too cold. Robert Mitchum (Gen. Norm Cota) was so disgusted with them that he jumped in first, at which point, the soldiers had no choice but to follow his example.
The Longest Day
Friday, May 22nd, 7:30PM
Sunday, May 24th, 2:00PM
1962 | G | 2Hr. 59 Min.