The Longest Day (1962)- The attack begins

The allied navy begins their attack on the German beaches.

[@PaulJR-hp2qm]

My dad took me to watch this when I was a kid. When the fleet broached the horizon, I’ve never forgotten that scene. 👍 Even today, knowing that war is seldom black and white, I see the invasion as nothing less than deliverance, planned and undertaken by incredibly brave and skillfull people to whom I’m forever grateful. 🇬🇧

[@thelastjohnwayne]

In this movie the War was Black and White

[@thunderhead180]

Maj. Pluskat survived and actually consulted on the movie.

[@thomasgalyen6757]

I always wondered what happened to his dog.

[@Koekiepoekie]

​​@@thomasgalyen6757He surrendered 😆

[@richardseverin1603]

I liked the part where the officer calmly sitting in Paris asks Pluskat "where are all these ships heading?", and Pluskat says "AT ME!!!"

[@crazedvole]

I like the guy in the house. He looked out over the water and could literally see freedom on the horizon.

[@MichaelHagen1973]

Its Goldfinger, the super vilan from the 007 movie "Goldfinger".

[@haitolawrence5986]

@@MichaelHagen1973 That was Gert Frobe and he was on the horse not in the house.

[@MichaelHagen1973]

@@haitolawrence5986 yes, sorry that was actually what I meant🤦‍♂️. Either its my Danish spelling control or just me being sloppy but I did mean the man on the MULE.

[@MichaelHagen1973]

@@haitolawrence5986 “Do you want me to apologize, no Mr. Idiot I want you to write horse, not house”

[@charlessb5007]

🇫🇷❤️

[@billnotice9957]

Hard to believe that German Soldier riding the horse would survive the war and become GOLD FINGER!!!!

[@kjg0885]

Pluscat not having a good day, “those 5000 ships you say the allies dont have…well they got em!”

[@charlessb5007]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kevinhealey6540]

These films about WW2 are sometimes good, but these films don't have the same flair or the panache that WW2 films had, that were made before 1980. The reason being is the people who either worked on those or were actually in them either served during world World Ward, served on the front and were actual war heroes. Only one who went through that experience can give a sense of realism to a film. Some of the actors in those films were actual war heroes. Alec Guinness, Scotty from Star Trek, Eddie Albert, Mr. Douglas, Steve McQueen, Earnest Borgnine, Clark Gable, Charles Durning, John Russell, Robert Ryan, Brian Keith, Lee Marvin, Tyrone Power, Ted Knight, Ted Baxter in Mary Tyler Moore, Richard Todd, Claude Rains, Telly Salvales, Kojak, Sterling Hayden, Jackie Coogan, Jimmy Edwards, William Hopper, from Perry Mason, David Niven, Donald Pleasence, Christopher Lee, Nigel Stock, Andre Morell, Jack Hawkins, Richard Todd, Percy Herbert, William Hartnell, Jimmy Hanley, Peter Ustinov, Denholm Elliot, Mickey Rooney, Jimmy Stewart, Red Skelton, Henry Fonda, Dennis Day, Richard Todd, Audrey Hepburn, John Warner, Bennie Hill, An actor who had never been in the military could never have the mannerisms of someone like Neville Brand. That only way one could have that would be from having gone through, at the very least, a stint in the service, but in his case he was on the front line.

[@certaindeed]

you know when Goldfinger is riding a mule things are gonna get tough.

[@bamarine247]

This movie had two future Bond villains. Gert Fröbe, AKA Goldfinger plays Feldwebel Kaffeekann here. And Curt Jurgens, AKA Stromberg from The Spy Who Loved Me, plays General Blumentritt, Von Rundstedt’s chief of staff

[@andydawson5587]

Also Bond himself...Big Sean playing an Irishman!

[@billydrucker-mn6ez]

In a 1964 CBS documentary, General Eisenhower spoke to Walter Cronkite about this very scene…from the actual German bunker where Pluskat was…fascinating

[@joebloggs8422]

Those naval guns were something else

[@RichardTaylor1800]

Love the German on the mule's reaction. Like yeah, that's exactly how you react in that situation. Just a big 'ol "oh...oh, shit."

[@thunderhead180]

....that guy was Goldfinger! From the 1960s Bond movie... no wonder he was so bitter

[@jimmiller5600]

@@thunderhead180 Gert Frobe

[@thunderhead180]

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[@sonrouge]

Him actually starting to draw his rifle before realizing how useless it would be adds to it.

[@Mike-01234]

Some interesting facts of Battleships used on D-day firing their guns USS Arkansas 12" guns, USS Nevada 14" guns, HMS Ramillies 15" guns, HMS Rodney 16" guns, USS Texas 14" guns, HMS Warspite 15" guns.

[@jeffersonwright9275]

The most amazing thing about this film is that the non-American actors - French, German and British - totally gave performances that blew their American counter-parts away!

[@TheGroundedAviator]

On average they do produce better actors.

[@VinceLyle2161]

It's probably the same thing going on as the actors and actresses singing La Marseillaise in Casablanca. They lived through it. They knew what it was like.

[@charlessb5007]

It’incredible 🙏🏻

[@DomWeasel]

In a film featuring John Wayne, it's not difficult to look like a good actor.

[@LeeAlanJohnson75]

Sends shivers down my spine, tears in my eyes, when the ships open fire... we're here.

[@jimomaha7809]

According to several period time witnesse /veteran, Major Pluskat was not in his bunker wen the invasion started. It is said he was acutally doing, a paid, horizontal tango with a French female in a therefore designated establishment. As, former, Major Pluskat must have realised this probably would not made it to the big screen. And as an advisor to this movie he kind off used some artistic license.

[@limjahey3119]

One of the best memories I have as a kid (born 1993) is watching this with my dad when it came on AMC

[@marcusblackwell2372]

And it still airs on TV. TCM on Memorial Day I think

[@MMID303]

Similar memories. Born in 91. First saw this movie with my dad. Such an epic movie!

[@stevensiferd7104]

This was a terrific three-hour movie, but it didn't have an intermission. I think the best place for an intermission would have been at 1:24 as he was waving the tri-color out his window, with the resumption occurring at 1:25 with the shot of the big guns firing.

[@duartesimoes508]

Longest movie too. Way too long, I just wanted to go home. And it appeared to be the norm back then.

[@williampaz2092]

I actually feel sorry for that soldier delivering coffee. His only job was as a commissariat and he stumbled into the biggest amphibious invasion in military history. His rifle was really only for show. He was utterly unprepared for what he saw. I wonder whatever happened to him.

[@kubanskiloewe]

Gerd Fröbe....Goldfinger riding a horse :-)

[@sonrouge]

I'm not sure why, but the poor officer screaming into the phone never fails to be hilarious. Wouldn't be half as funny if it were in English.

[@DomWeasel]

Always makes me think of Al Powell in Die Hard screaming into his radio while "under automatic rifle fire at Nakatomi! I need backup assistance now! NOW, GODDAMMIT, NOW!"

[@robd2721]

Didn't Pluskat have the Shepherd dogs? Wonder if they survived the attack?

[@jerlewis4291]

What always floored me was how they showed the concussion from the shells as they burst. If you're close enough to an artillery shell to feel the concussion it can kill you. Just crush your organs.

[@billhuber2964]

0:22. SURPRISE !!!!!!##

[@42lookc]

GIVE 'er, lads!

[@gamiezion]

[look at him, the pride of the german army] [they're here. the americans, they're finally here, look they e coming, hurray, hurray] [what's the matter pluscat?] [are you deaf? can't you hear them? yes! YES! the 5000 ships you said they didn't have? can you hear them?]

[@37Dionysos]

What did you do in the war, Goldfinger?

[@lucianopavarotti2843]

Hey, what's Bond villain Goldfinger doing in this?

[@AM-wn1bj]

His name is Gerd Fröbe

[@jeffersonwright9275]

well spotted - presumably he was dead by the time a very young Bond hit the beach :-)

[@evanfrew1834]

It's the villain's origin story

[@TOFMDrone]

actualy james bond himself (sean connery) is in this movie as well :p

[@lucianopavarotti2843]

Very true! And.. it turns out so is Curd Jurgens, who played the Bond villain Stromberg in The Spy who Loved Me ;) @@TOFMDrone

[@bobapbob5812]

It's Goldfinger!!!

[@rolfagten857]

Blech and Froebe are 2 ex Wehrmacht veterans.

[@stuartmcnaughton1495]

All those shells landing and not a single casualty.

[@flitsertheo]

2:21

[@Koekiepoekie]

One of the few movies were people actually speak in their own language. Now look at the new Napoleon movie. Napoleon speaks English!! That's ridiculous, especially if you know that he hated the English, most of all. Hollywood is lame and lazy.

[@gianpaologasparetto5288]

01:25🔝

[@beeractivist4439]

This how Goldfinger started our then...

[@steveconkey7362]

Goldfinger…..

[@jeffreyb8770]

Its odd the Germans were caught by surprise.

[@None-zc5vg]

It's just as odd that the Pearl Harbor people were caught with their pants down, with no reconnaissance planes out on patrol

[@adriangarcia543]

Hello the new debate brothers please put on scene of the movie invisible woman 1940 and Alice adventure in wonderland 1972 and pinocchio 2009 or goodtime entertainment movies

[@pascalelefebvre6942]

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