The Longest Day (1962) Review
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Sean Connery, Richard Burton. The Longest Day is the gold standard for D-Day filmmaking.
Actor: Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan was nominated for Crossfire, playing an antisemitic murderer, and spent much of his career playing violent and prejudiced men.
He was in life a committed liberal and civil rights supporter, which he found ironic and discussed openly. The Wild Bunch, Bad Day at Black Rock and The Set-Up are the essential ones, the last playing a boxer refusing to take a dive in real time. He was a Marine and a college boxing champion.
