Cast: Eddie Albert (Col. Thompson) Paul Anka (U.S. Army Ranger) Arletty (Madame Barrault) Jean-Louis Barrault (Father Louis Roulland) Richard Beymer (Schultz) Hans Christian Blech (Maj. Werner Pluskat) Bourvil (Mayor of Colleville) Richard Burton (Flight Officer David Campbell) Wolfgang Büttner (Major General Dr. Hans Speidel) Red Buttons (Pvt. John Steele) Pauline Carton (Maid) Sean Connery (Pvt. Flanagan) Ray Danton (Captain Frank) Irina Demick (Janine Boitard) Fred Major (U.S. Army Ranger major) Director: Ken Annakin Certification: Australia: PG South Korea: All New Zealand: PG Germany: 12 Finland: K-16 Norway: 16 Spain: T Sweden: 15 UK: PG USA: G Federal Republic of Germany: 12 See all minimize
Plot Summary: The retelling of the sixth June 1944, from the perspective of the Germans, the U.S., Britain and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defense as systematic as to the whole of the kingdom of the Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that will be when it comes to Allied Assault obliged to stop at the bank. “For the Allies as hot as the Germans want the longest time. The longest flowering season.”