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Production Year: 1962 - War - Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Franklin J. Schaffner, Richard Fleischer - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance more

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The Longest Day is Hollywood's definitive D-day
movie. More modern accounts such as Saving Private
Ryan are more vividly realistic, but producer
Darryl F Zanuck's epic 1962 account is the only
one to attempt the daunting task of covering that
fateful day from all perspectives. From the German
high command and front-line officers to the French
Resistance and all the key Allied participants,
the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own
authoritative book, is as factually accurate as
possible. The endless parade of stars (John Wayne,
Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and
Richard Burton, to name a few) makes for an uneasy
mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power,
however, and the film falls a little flat for too
much of its three-hour running time. But the
set-piece battles are still spectacular, and if
the landings on Omaha Beach lack the graphic gore
of Private Ryan they nonetheless show the sheer
scale and audacity of the invasion. --Mark Walker 
Patton - One of the greatest screen biographies
ever produced, Patton is a monumental film that
won seven Academy Awards and gave George C Scott
the greatest role of his career. It was released
in 1970 when protest against the Vietnam War still
raged in the States and abroad. Inevitably, many
critics and filmgoers struggled to reconcile the
events of the day with the film's glorification of
US General George S Patton as a crazy-brave genius
of World War II; how could a film so huge in scope
and so fascinated by its subject be considered an
anti-war film? The simple truth is that it's
not--Patton is less about World War II than about
the rise and fall of a man whose life was
literally defined by war and who felt lost and
lonely without the grand-scale pursuit of an
enemy. George C Scott embodies his role so fully,
so convincingly, that we can't help but be drawn
to and fascinated by Patton as a man who is
simultaneously bound for hell and glory. The
film's opening monologue alone is a masterful
display of acting and character analysis and
everything that follows is sheer brilliance on the
part of Scott and director Franklin J Schaffner,
aided in no small part by composer Jerry
Goldsmith's masterfully understated score.  Filmed
on an epic scale at literally dozens of European
locations, Patton does not embrace war as a noble
pursuit, nor does it deny the reality of war as a
breeding ground for heroes. Through the awesome
achievement of Scott's performance and the film's
grand ambition, General Patton shows all the
complexities of a man who accepted his role in
life and (like Scott) played it to the hilt.
--Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com  Tora! Tora! Tora! Here
is just one of the many mishaps chronicled in
Tora! Tora! Tora!: "Sir, there's a large formation
of planes coming in from the north, 140 miles, 3
degrees east." "Yeah? Don't worry about it." The
epic film shows the bombing of Pearl Harbour from
both sides in the historic first American-Japanese
coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer
oversaw the complicated production (the Japanese
sequences were directed by Toshio Masuda and Kinji
Fukasaku, after Akira Kurosawa withdrew from the
film), wrestling a sprawling story with dozens of
characters into a manageable, fairly
easy-to-follow film. The first half maps out the
collapse of diplomacy between the nations and the
military blunders that left naval and air forces
sitting ducks for the impending attack, while the
second half is an amazing re-creation of the
devastating battle. While Tora! Tora! Tora! lacks
the strong central characters that anchor the best
war films, the real star of the film is the
climactic 30-minute battle, a massive feat of
cinematic engineering that expertly conveys the
surprise, the chaos and the immense destruction.
The special effects won a well-deserved Oscar, but
the film was shut out of every other category by,
ironically, the other epic war picture of the
year, Patton. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
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This set contains three great war films,The Longest Day,PattonandTora! Tora! Tora!The ... more
Longest Dayis Hollywood's definitive D-day movie.
More modern accounts such asSaving Private Ryanare
more vividly realistic, but producer Darryl F
Zanuck's epic 1962 account is the only one to
attempt the daunting task of covering that fateful
day from all perspectives. From the German high
command and front-line officers to the French
Resistance and all the key Allied participants,
the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own
authoritative book, is as factually accurate as
possible. The endless parade of stars (John Wayne,
Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and
Richard Burton, to name a few) makes for an uneasy
mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power,
however, and the film falls a little flat for too
much of its three-hour running time. But the
set-piece battles are still spectacular, and if
the landings on Omaha Beach lack the graphic gore
ofPrivate Ryanthey nonetheless show the sheer
scale and audacity of the invasion.--Mark
WalkerPatton- One of the greatest screen
biographies ever produced,Pattonis a monumental
film that won seven Academy Awards and gave George
C Scott the greatest role of his career. It was
released in 1970 when protest against the Vietnam
War still raged in the States and abroad.
Inevitably, many critics and filmgoers struggled
to reconcile the events of the day with the film's
glorification of US General George S Patton as a
crazy-brave genius of World War II; how could a
film so huge in scope and so fascinated by its
subject be considered an anti-war film? The simple
truth is that it's not--Pattonis less about World
War II than about the rise and fall of a man whose
life was literally defined by war and who felt
lost and lonely without the grand-scale pursuit of
an enemy. George C Scott embodies his role so
fully, so convincingly, that we can't help but be
drawn to and fascinated by Patton as a man who is
simultaneously bound for hell and glory. The
film's opening monologue alone is a masterful
display of acting and character analysis and
everything that follows is sheer brilliance on the
part of Scott and director Franklin J Schaffner,
aided in no small part by composer Jerry
Goldsmith's masterfully understated score.Filmed
on an epic scale at literally dozens of European
locations,Pattondoes not embrace war as a noble
pursuit, nor does it deny the reality of war as a
breeding ground for heroes. Through the awesome
achievement of Scott's performance and the film's
grand ambition, General Patton shows all the
complexities of a man who accepted his role in
life and (like Scott) played it to the hilt.--Jeff
Shannon, Amazon.comTora! Tora! Tora!Here is just
one of the many mishaps chronicled inTora! Tora!
Tora!: "Sir, there's a large formation of planes
coming in from the north, 140 miles, 3 degrees
east." "Yeah? Don't worry about it." The epic film
shows the bombing of Pearl Harbour from both sides
in the historic first American-Japanese
coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer
oversaw the complicated production (the Japanese
sequences were directed by Toshio Masuda and Kinji
Fukasaku, after Akira Kurosawa withdrew from the
film), wrestling a sprawling story with dozens of
characters into a manageable, fairly
easy-to-follow film. The first half maps out the
collapse of diplomacy between the nations and the
military blunders that left naval and air forces
sitting ducks for the impending attack, while the
second half is an amazing re-creation of the
devastating battle. WhileTora! Tora! Tora!lacks
the strong central characters that anchor the best
war films, the real star of the film is the
climactic 30-minute battle, a massive feat of
cinematic engineering that expertly conveys the
surprise, the chaos and the immense destruction.
The special effects won a well-deserved Oscar, but
the film was shut out of every other category by,
ironically, the other epic war picture of the
year,Patton.--Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
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Main specs

Actor(s): John Wayne, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Sean Connery, George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, E.G. Marshall, Jason Robards

Director(s): Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Franklin J. Schaffner, Richard Fleischer

Genre: War

Classification: Parental Guidance

Production Year: 1962

Colour: Black & White / Colour

Running Time: 7 hours 48 minutes

Video Category: Feature Film

Plot: Three features. 'Longest Day' is an account of the events surrounding the Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. 'Patton' tells the story of one of America's greatest World War 2 Generals. 'Tora! Tora! Tora!' dramatises the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th December 1941, from the the American and Japanese points of view.

DVD Description

Three features. 'Longest Day' is an account of the events surrounding the Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. 'Patton' tells the story of one of America's greatest World War 2 Generals. 'Tora! Tora! Tora!' dramatises the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th December 1941, from the the American and Japanese points of view.

Release details

DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)

Studio(s): 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Deluxe Video Service - Fox

Release date: 19/09/2005

No of Discs: 3

Catalogue No: 23981 DVD

Barcode: 5039036017985

Languages

Main Language: English

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Review of The Longest Day (Vanilla Version) by  morgan1878

Advantages: Best War Movie ever made!
Disadvantages: None

...This is quite simply the best War film ever made in my opinion.Deserved more than the two oscars it received(cinematography and special effects).The film chronicles the D-Day landings from the conception,planning, to the day itself on the 6th of June 1944 when the first of three million allied soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy.The attack involved eleven thousand planes and four thousand ships,comprising the biggest armada ever assembled.Told from both sides this film is factually correct and well acted by a brilliant cast including John Wayne, Robert Mitchum,Sophia Loren and Anton Diffring to name just a few.Also includes a great documentary "D-Day Revisited" plus the original Theatrical Trailer plus the trailers from "Tora! Tora! Tora! and "Patton".A Must have for any DVD collection!... Read review

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Excellent War Classic
Review of Tora! Tora! Tora! (Wide Screen) by  Incognito

Advantages: Historically accurate, no bias, moving account
Disadvantages: None.

...Tora Tora Tora (Japanese for 'attack, attack, attack') and is the story of the Attack on Pearl Harbor. It is an unbiast, Anti- American even account, historiaclly correct, with a strong message. Unlike some war films, it is not 'US whups Japans ass' or 'Britain whups Hitlers ass', but more a moving account of the futility of war. Unusually for a war film, it has strong anti- war seams throughout, and is an excellent war film for doing so. It stars Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura and E G Marshall, all of whom fit their charachters perfectly. It is Yamamuras performance as the battle- weary Yamamoto which is most excellent. Yamamotos undersyanding of the futility of attacking the United States runs thourgh his performance, and we soon see he is correct. The attack scenes are excellent for the day, and teh film is oen of my chocies... Read review

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"We'll start the war from right here!"
Review of The Longest Day (Wide Screen) by  alexdg1

Advantages: Only major film to attempt to capture the scope and drama of D-Day
Disadvantages: None

...later executive produce the Japanese-American Pearl Harbor classic, Tora! Tora! Tora! The movie basically follows the book's structure in its three major acts: The Wait, about the preparations on both sides for the invasion; The Night, about the night airborne assault; and The Day, about the landings on the five invasion beaches. The DVD breaks these three acts into 12 chapters. While by early 21st Century standards The Longest Day's combat scenes are rather tame - there are no extremely gory scenes as explicit as those in Saving Private Ryan - they do capture the vastness and complexity of the Normandy landings. Shot in a semi-documentary style (major characters are introduced with identifying "credits" so we know who is who), The Longest Day is as accurate as a 1962-era film studio could depict an actual event. The black... Read review

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