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A Private Battle (1980)

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A Bridge Too Far (1977)

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The Longest Day (1962)

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Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe I Was Wrong About Rhoda

Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Request Reluctantly Approved

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A Private Battle (1980)

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A Bridge Too Far (1977)

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The Longest Day (1962)

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Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe I Was Wrong About Rhoda First appearance of Rod Steiger as a fictional American navy destroyer commander, joining in the overnight assault in the early hours of June 6 , 1944, then on the deck Jeffrey Hunter as fictional Fuller, Joseph Lowe as “Sparrow,” Peter Helm as Mac, more anecdotes as producer Darryl F. Zanuck builds toward the D-Day invasion, in The Longest Day, 1962.

Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Request Reluctantly Approved Peter Lawford as Lovat, (Scottish-born British aristocrat Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, a real person) minimizing his oratory en route to the D-Day invasion, then Edmond O’Brien as Gen. Barton, and Henry Fonda (then 56, the same age as his character) finally appearing 90 minutes into the picture as Gen. Teddy Roosevelt Jr., dramatizing a famous actual event, in The Longest Day, 1962.

Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Send 'Em To Hell Robert Ryan as (the real) Gen. Gavin seems to be loving this bit with the flashlight, then Jack Hedley as an RAF officer briefing the men on a (real!) tactical gag, then John Wayne again as Col. Vandevoort (also a real person) with another (factual!) gimmick, and grim appraisal, building toward the event in Darryl F. Zanuck’s D-Day behemoth The Longest Day, 1962.

Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) We Keep Getting Fewer First appearance for Richard Burton of course as the solitary Brit flyer entering the HQ tavern, just managing a joke about the brew when he’s approached by fellow Donald Houston, and shares word of a lost colleague, beginning another story-line, in producer Darryl F. Zanuck’s D-Day epic The Longest Day, 1962.

Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Why'd He Have To Mention Fort Bragg? In an airplane hangar in England converted to barracks, we’ve just met Red Buttons as American G.I. Steele and Richard Beymer as Schultz, having something of a personal reckoning, observed by buddy Martini (Sal Mineo), awaiting D-Day, in producer Darryl F. Zanuck’s The Longest Day. 1962.

Bridge Too Far, A (1977) -- (Movie Clip) We Go Next Sunday Early planning, General Browning (Dirk Bogarde) briefing colleagues Maxwell (Paul Maxwell), Urquhart (Sean Connery), Gavin (Ryan O'Neal) and Sosabowski (Gene Hackman) on the big idea, in Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far, 1977.

Bridge Too Far, A (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Better By Daylight American General Gavin (Ryan O'Neal) seeks out Major Cook (Robert Redford, beginning his vignette) for a dangerous mission, as plans begin to go awry in A Bridge Too Far, 1977.

Bridge Too Far, A (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Shall We Have A Go? Colonel Frost (Anthony Hopkins) leads his British paratroops (Frank Grimes, Alun Armstrong et al) to the first bridge at Arnhem, taking over a Dutch household, in Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far, 1977.

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