THE LONGEST DAY
The Stills
Bom, bom, bom,... boommmm
At the bridge of Bénouville (the future Pegasus bridge)
is a German control post (in the hay people are hiding,...)
But there is some distraction on the way,...
Irene Demick
(as Janine Boltard) seduces German soldiers on Bènouville bridge
(today its called the Pegasus Bridge)
Irene uses here
two strongest points
Von Rundstedt
(Paul Hartmann) and Blumentritt (Curd Jurgens) watch the parade
Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel is meanwhile
inspectecting the Atlantic Wall
Rommel his officers listen to the words of him:
'Behind the horizon
a monster lies in waiting,... But gentlemen, not a single Allied soldier
will reach the beach,... I will destroy them at them at the shore,...'
RAF Fl.Off.
Richard Campbell (Richard Burton) tells about Johnny,... 'He
bought it'
Major 'Pips'
Priller (Heinz Reincke) wants to hear from Luftwaffe General Wolfgang
Hager
where his planes went to!
Luftwaffe
General Wolfgang Hager (Karl John) has tried to explain, in vain, to 'Pips'
that the Fatherland
needs protection and that's why the planes have been moved
Meanwhile the American paratroopers are shooting a 'crap game'.
'Dutch' Schultz (right) won 5000 dollar, and lost it again ('he jumps clean')
And Lt.Col.
Vandervoort (John Wayne) wants another dropzone from
Brigadier General James M. Gavin (Robert
Ryan)
Lt.Col. Vandervoort,
Lt. Wilson (Tom Tryon) and Captain Harding (Steve Forrest)
British paratroopers are transported in
a Horsa Glider.Major Howard (Richard Todd, right)
and his men are ready for the
landing near the bridge across the Caen canal.
Private
Morris (Roddy McDowall) thinks it over on board of one of the ships
which will carry him, and the rest of the 4th Division, to Utah
Beach
General
Erich Marcks (Richard Munch) gets more that just a birthday cake,...
...
also unexpected guests arrive,... 'Gummi Puppen'
Private
'Dutch' Schultz lands in Normandy,
in a tree and calling out to his
'fellas' to help him,...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (Paul
Hartmann)
has a short night in 'The Longest Day'
Right; Lt.Col. Vandervoort (John Wayne) and
Captain Harding (Steve Forest)
'click' one more time and are ready for their jump from the C-47
Mayor of Ste-Mère-Eglise,
Alexandre Renaud (Georges Wilson, on the left),
with a German officer,
see the paratroopers coming down out of the dark sky
In
Ste-Mère-Eglise paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne
Division drop into an inferno
John Steel
(Red Buttons), who is hanging on the bell tower,
watches
in horror the scenes below him
Resistance heroin
Janine Boltard (Irene Demick) is trying to silence
a German soldier who is trying to warn the train for sabotage,...
Private
'Dutch' Schultz, free from his intrapment with the tree, also runs into German
soldiers, but
they pass him unseen, because overhead planes make them look upwards,...
Meanwhile the Allied fleet
with seasick men onboard, is on its way to Normandy,...
On the next page it becomes daylight during
The Longest Day
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