http://www.viewpoints.com/The-Longest-Day-reviews Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:21:30 GMT Latest reviews about The Longest Day http://www.viewpoints.com/The-Longest-Day-review-72773 The way salaries are today, you could never get so many stars to be in one picture and swallow their giant egos to make a movie that not only stands up today but is used in schools of all grades, colleges and universities to teach the story of D-Day because it is one of the most accurate movies Hollywood ever made.... Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:21:30 GMT http://www.viewpoints.com/The-Longest-Day-review-72773 RevSkull 5 http://www.viewpoints.com/The-Longest-Day-review-df5d3 <p align="left"><em>Whenever and wherever this invasion may come, gentlemen... I shall destroy the enemy there, at the water's edge. Believe me, gentlemen, the first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive. For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day... The longest day.</em> - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, <em>The Longest Day</em></p><p align="left">Although it premiered 45 years ago (as of this writing) and seems a bit dated now, Darryl F. Zanuck's <em>The Longest Day </em>remains one of the best Hollywood depictions of a World War II battle ever filmed.  It also was, until Steven Spielberg filmed his 1993 Holocaust classic <em>Schindler's List, </em>the most expensive black-and-white film in U.S. movie history, with a budget of $10,000,000.00 and starring - along with several thousand extras, mostly NATO troops on maneuvers in the Mediterranean - 42 international stars, including Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens, Arletty, and John Wayne.</p><p align="left">Based on the international best-seller by Cornelius Ryan (who helped adapt...</p>... Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:55:27 GMT http://www.viewpoints.com/The-Longest-Day-review-df5d3 Fardreamer 5