Great scene of ensemble interaction at German HQ as everything's about to hit the fan in Normandy---in the dark, earliest hours of D-Day. The scene flows so smoothly with no apparent cuts, the staff & officers speaking, moving, & acting so naturally & realistically, like watching the unfolding of history "live" in real time. I imagine the teletype clacking we hear is dubbed in but I find this sound provides a kind of suspenseful hum, a feeling that enormous events are taking place---or about to. Every time I watch clips or see the entire film again, over a period of many years, it makes me want to read the Cornelius Ryan book on which it's based. I always swear to myself that this time I'm going to do it for sure but I never do. In truth, I have started it but always get sidetracked, put it down, forget, & never go back to it. This movie was way over my head when I first saw it with my dad & granddad back in the early 60's. Although the film's beach landing scenes are bloodless, it's how they had to do it back then. I now find the operational planning scenes such as this one almost more fascinating than the landings themselves, in a cinematic sense. A unique period in the world's history no matter how one looks at it!
The actor taking the general's coat at the beginning and handing Pemsel some papers was an officer on the eastern front. The actor, Vicco von Bülow, later became one of the funniest persons on German TV. He is/was known under his alias, Loriot.
I saw this film in 64 on a tv Program called "Saturday Night at the Movies." "Saturday Night at the Movies" was a household name. Everybody would tune in to see what would be shown. There were a lot of great films that they showed.
In ww2. Officers still kept a daily journel. This movie was taken from the book, same name by Cornelius Ryan. Ryan spent years locating these journals and interviewing survivors. Then putting events into order. Some overlap. But masterfully done. Killer Angels about the civil war was done in this style. Sometimes difficult to follow in both. But they are done to the minute. Reading a few times give them a real perspective.
a joke from about that time: When you see a dark plane, it's a Brit, when you see a bright plane, it's an American, and when you see nothing, it's the Luftwaffe.
30 Sherman tanks were suppose to float to the Normandy beaches. Only one tank made it through the rough sea. 29 Sherman tanks with 5 man crews sank drowning the men (145 men). If those tanks had made it to the beaches then USA casualties could have been reduced from 5,000 to half or even less.
30 Sherman tanks were suppose to float to the Normandy beaches. Only one tank made it through the rough sea. 29 Sherman tanks with 5 man crews sank drowning the men (145 men). If those tanks had made it to the beaches then USA casualties could have been reduced from 5,000 to half or even less.
30 Sherman tanks were suppose to float to the Normandy beaches. Only one tank made it through the rough sea. 29 Sherman tanks with 5 man crews sank drowning the men (145 men). If those tanks had made it to the beaches then USA casualties could have been reduced from 5,000 to half or even less.
German planning has always been predictable. Americans used this in the invasion when they had problems bringing artillery ashore. They sent out "news" that they were having troubles breaking through the hedgerows. With tanks. Invented to plow through forests, stuck in shrubbery. Germans ALWAYS counterattack when a foe gets bogged down, so when we did the Germans came back into range of naval bombardment long enough for the mobile land artillery to be offloaded from the ships. We then put out pictures of weird cutting things placed onto tanks as the reason for the shrub fix. You never knew when we might need another German tactical mistake.
Using the dialogue in native German, these scenes have been so much natural. It is just mind blowing. I watch these clips over and over again. Peter Munch is a terrific actor (played Eric Marks)
I was stationed in Germany in the 70s. A German woman told me everyone knew the war was over for Germany in 43. She explained back then everyone would listen to the BBC although it was illegal because supposedly the BBC put out fake propaganda. She said however it was the only place where one could find out what was really going on. The BBC was totally 100% honest. They would even report when things were not going good for the allies. Like when the Bismarck was wrecking havoc on the British navy, or when Rommel was winning the war in Africa. German radio stations were constantly reporting the war was being won no matter what and victory was just around the corner. When the Russian offense turned the tables around in Russia, German news stations were reporting that the war was being won by attrition. The German news put out misleading reports up to the very end. She said that soldiers returning from the Russian front who were minus an arm or leg(s) were telling people that no many casualties the Russian army suffers, the onslaught continues nonstop and that it can not be stopped and it's just a matter of time. I read once in the internet that German Field Commanders would listen to it so that they could make better plans.
At 3:19 mark, the soldier holding the parachute is also in the movie, The Train, another too often overlooked WW2 film. He played an underground person who played the role of a German soldier who had to keep guard of Bert Lancaster at one of the fake RR stations. I highly recommend the film and for the performance of Wolfgang Priess as Major Herein.
I was 8 years old when my Dad took me to see this movie when it came out. It was the most exciting thing I had ever seen. Which in retrospect in later years was strange as he was a Koren War First Cav war vet and never said one single word about his war experience. Not a word to me or my older brother.I leaned later as I grew up vets don't like talking about there war experience. My wife's Dad a real big tough guy was in the Anzio Invasion in WW2. Not a word.
Spandex is a interesting character. After the July 20th plot, Spandel was suspected of being in on it. He was arrested and questioned by the Gestapo. Using superior logic, he was able to persuade them that he was not part of the plot. Moreover, there is some thought that Rommel took cover for Spandel. After the war, he became one of the leaders of the new West German army.
When one believes you have the enemy’s plan distilled and predicted. That is when you should be wary as should always expect the enemy to be unpredictable and surprise you. As allies did by making use if he keys that they would never invade in such weather and via Normandy.
Rommel strategy was spot on for dealing with the invasion, to stop it in the beeches as the overall local commander in chief in the spot. However he was hamstrung in putting his plan into action by being absence in Germany for his wife birthday on June 6 and hitters refusal to release panzer reserves or the 15th army that would be necessary to prevent the allies from Gaining linked up beachhead in sufficient strength to carry on the invasion.
Brilliant set of clips, showcasing that even as everything when to hell In a hand basket. German army officers were still perfectly capable of reading events and reacting to a crisis with its usual efficiency. .
One of the special things about Longest Day is that it gave the points of view of different groups, different sides. It had an enormous cast with many characters. This is rarely done in a war movie because they tend to emphasize one side. It's a rarity in films in general because the concern is that with so many points of view and characters, the story can easily become an unfocused mess. Longest Day also went through the extra effort of native languages being used. French spoken by the French, German being spoken by the Germans.
4:03 A little Easter Egg....Six days after the invasion on June sixth. General Marks was killed while driving in daylight on a road near St. Lo by a strafing attack from an American P47 .
One minute it’s birthday cake, next it’s burning documents and heading for the border.
Great scene of ensemble interaction at German HQ as everything's about to hit the fan in Normandy---in the dark, earliest hours of D-Day. The scene flows so smoothly with no apparent cuts, the staff & officers speaking, moving, & acting so naturally & realistically, like watching the unfolding of history "live" in real time. I imagine the teletype clacking we hear is dubbed in but I find this sound provides a kind of suspenseful hum, a feeling that enormous events are taking place---or about to. Every time I watch clips or see the entire film again, over a period of many years, it makes me want to read the Cornelius Ryan book on which it's based. I always swear to myself that this time I'm going to do it for sure but I never do. In truth, I have started it but always get sidetracked, put it down, forget, & never go back to it. This movie was way over my head when I first saw it with my dad & granddad back in the early 60's. Although the film's beach landing scenes are bloodless, it's how they had to do it back then. I now find the operational planning scenes such as this one almost more fascinating than the landings themselves, in a cinematic sense. A unique period in the world's history no matter how one looks at it!
The actor taking the general's coat at the beginning and handing Pemsel some papers was an officer on the eastern front. The actor, Vicco von Bülow, later became one of the funniest persons on German TV. He is/was known under his alias, Loriot.
I saw this film in 64 on a tv Program called "Saturday Night at the Movies." "Saturday Night at the Movies" was a household name. Everybody would tune in to see what would be shown. There were a lot of great films that they showed.
If you look at the films of Rommel at Normandy in 44, you can see he's not the same man he was in North Africa.
In ww2. Officers still kept a daily journel. This movie was taken from the book, same name by Cornelius Ryan. Ryan spent years locating these journals and interviewing survivors. Then putting events into order. Some overlap. But masterfully done. Killer Angels about the civil war was done in this style. Sometimes difficult to follow in both. But they are done to the minute. Reading a few times give them a real perspective.
Pas de chance pour son anniversaire 😂
a joke from about that time: When you see a dark plane, it's a Brit, when you see a bright plane, it's an American, and when you see nothing, it's the Luftwaffe.
I would watch a well done movie about the Merrimack and the Monitor, again, if done HONESTLY, HISTORICALLY ACCURATELY AND NOT WOKE.
ROMMEL EL MEJOR ESTRATEGA DE LA 2DA GUERRA MUNDIAL .
Dear Strategist, Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem, ISRAEL. Mr. Lowell Joseph Gallin
Imagine being the officer who keeps telling Pemsel that the invasion can't happen because the weather is bad.
Rommel hatte einen Maybach DSH als Dienstwagen.
A few of the German officers in Normandy,& poyrayed in this movie, served in the postwar German army, the Bundeswehr.
30 Sherman tanks were suppose to float to the Normandy beaches. Only one tank made it through the rough sea. 29 Sherman tanks with 5 man crews sank drowning the men (145 men). If those tanks had made it to the beaches then USA casualties could have been reduced from 5,000 to half or even less.
30 Sherman tanks were suppose to float to the Normandy beaches. Only one tank made it through the rough sea. 29 Sherman tanks with 5 man crews sank drowning the men (145 men). If those tanks had made it to the beaches then USA casualties could have been reduced from 5,000 to half or even less.
30 Sherman tanks were suppose to float to the Normandy beaches. Only one tank made it through the rough sea. 29 Sherman tanks with 5 man crews sank drowning the men (145 men). If those tanks had made it to the beaches then USA casualties could have been reduced from 5,000 to half or even less.
In the film the us army took of d day those iron things weren't on the beach sry
Interesting fact: The man who reports to the general several times and takes his coat at the beginning is Loriot
I think we need a 2nd part, where will be no yankees searching for ironclads, but vagner kidos in pantsu, looking for "russian world"...
German planning has always been predictable. Americans used this in the invasion when they had problems bringing artillery ashore. They sent out "news" that they were having troubles breaking through the hedgerows. With tanks. Invented to plow through forests, stuck in shrubbery. Germans ALWAYS counterattack when a foe gets bogged down, so when we did the Germans came back into range of naval bombardment long enough for the mobile land artillery to be offloaded from the ships. We then put out pictures of weird cutting things placed onto tanks as the reason for the shrub fix. You never knew when we might need another German tactical mistake.
Using the dialogue in native German, these scenes have been so much natural. It is just mind blowing. I watch these clips over and over again. Peter Munch is a terrific actor (played Eric Marks)
A memorable performance that I saw on the big screen sixty years ago.
Loriot!👍
I was stationed in Germany in the 70s. A German woman told me everyone knew the war was over for Germany in 43. She explained back then everyone would listen to the BBC although it was illegal because supposedly the BBC put out fake propaganda. She said however it was the only place where one could find out what was really going on. The BBC was totally 100% honest. They would even report when things were not going good for the allies. Like when the Bismarck was wrecking havoc on the British navy, or when Rommel was winning the war in Africa. German radio stations were constantly reporting the war was being won no matter what and victory was just around the corner. When the Russian offense turned the tables around in Russia, German news stations were reporting that the war was being won by attrition. The German news put out misleading reports up to the very end. She said that soldiers returning from the Russian front who were minus an arm or leg(s) were telling people that no many casualties the Russian army suffers, the onslaught continues nonstop and that it can not be stopped and it's just a matter of time. I read once in the internet that German Field Commanders would listen to it so that they could make better plans.
Rommel was overated
At 3:19 mark, the soldier holding the parachute is also in the movie, The Train, another too often overlooked WW2 film. He played an underground person who played the role of a German soldier who had to keep guard of Bert Lancaster at one of the fake RR stations. I highly recommend the film and for the performance of Wolfgang Priess as Major Herein.
The Germans in this shit film are far better actors than the Americans, and their scenes are much more fun, ja, ja.
The detail of having Marcks have a limp and a mechanical sound when he walked was brilliant. Marcks had lost a leg on the Eastern front.
Rommel's aide.
Whats this movie?
Sahara (2005)
I was 8 years old when my Dad took me to see this movie when it came out. It was the most exciting thing I had ever seen. Which in retrospect in later years was strange as he was a Koren War First Cav war vet and never said one single word about his war experience. Not a word to me or my older brother.I leaned later as I grew up vets don't like talking about there war experience. My wife's Dad a real big tough guy was in the Anzio Invasion in WW2. Not a word.
Spandex is a interesting character. After the July 20th plot, Spandel was suspected of being in on it. He was arrested and questioned by the Gestapo. Using superior logic, he was able to persuade them that he was not part of the plot. Moreover, there is some thought that Rommel took cover for Spandel. After the war, he became one of the leaders of the new West German army.
Who ? LOL !!! 😁
ロリオはペムゼルの副官役ですね
Rommel has two months to live from the day of the invasion. He was forced to commit suicide after the plot to assassinate Hitler failed.
When one believes you have the enemy’s plan distilled and predicted. That is when you should be wary as should always expect the enemy to be unpredictable and surprise you. As allies did by making use if he keys that they would never invade in such weather and via Normandy.
I read that Rommel wanted German tanks stationed on the beaches to push them back but was denied….actually read this in several books.
Rommel strategy was spot on for dealing with the invasion, to stop it in the beeches as the overall local commander in chief in the spot. However he was hamstrung in putting his plan into action by being absence in Germany for his wife birthday on June 6 and hitters refusal to release panzer reserves or the 15th army that would be necessary to prevent the allies from Gaining linked up beachhead in sufficient strength to carry on the invasion.
Brilliant set of clips, showcasing that even as everything when to hell In a hand basket. German army officers were still perfectly capable of reading events and reacting to a crisis with its usual efficiency. .
Great US war propaganda film.
A movie that was more like a documentary then just a film .
One of the special things about Longest Day is that it gave the points of view of different groups, different sides. It had an enormous cast with many characters. This is rarely done in a war movie because they tend to emphasize one side. It's a rarity in films in general because the concern is that with so many points of view and characters, the story can easily become an unfocused mess. Longest Day also went through the extra effort of native languages being used. French spoken by the French, German being spoken by the Germans.
4:03 A little Easter Egg....Six days after the invasion on June sixth. General Marks was killed while driving in daylight on a road near St. Lo by a strafing attack from an American P47 .
1:40 Loriot
This a great movie. and one of my favourite WWII movies. 😀
Most of German divisions were on the Russian front.
1:05 throw the pencil of doom at it.
Wolfgang Preiss looked more like Rommel than Rommel did, but in this movie he was given a meatier role playing Pemsel.
Loriot ist auch dabei ! WOW
“Eisenhower would never take the gamble. Never!” 😈
The advantage of allied troops was the more precisely Information of the weatherforecast.
...british weatherforecast...
Erich Marcks lost a leg on the eastern front and was killed in an air raid 6 days after D-Day.
What I love about this clip u chose the black and white copy of the Longest Day.