The Longest Day

Ken Annakin (director)
Cornelius Ryan (novel, screenwriter)
Richard Burton, Mel Ferrer, Henry Fonda, Eddie Albert, Sean Connery (starring)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1962 film, showing a group of Allied troops storming Pegasus Bridge, with a camera crew in the foreground. With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso regarding layout, along with the stamp of Marine films.

Based on screenwriter Cornelius Ryan's 1959 book. A star-studded dramatization of the events of D-Day, from both the Allied and Axis perspectives, with many scenes (such as the aforementioned storming of Pegasus Bridge) filmed at their corresponding real-life French locations.

Set and shot on location in France.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.


[Book #149644]