I really dig this movie. I've probably seen it twenty times. It cost $10,000,000 to make it way back in 1962 and I think it is my favorite D-Day movie. It has all the black and white movie stars you could ever want: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Sean Connery. The movie is great, and all the characters speak their own languages with subtitle sin english. The biggest dissapointment is that Charlton Heston was considered for the role that John Wayne played and personally, I really think they blew it on that one.
Little bit of info from wikipedia: "During the filming of the landings at Omaha Beach, the American soldiers appearing as extras did not want to jump off the landing craft into the water because they thought it would be too cold. Robert Mitchum, who played General Norman Cota, became disgusted with their trepidation. He jumped in first, at which point the soldiers had no choice but to follow his example." -- Wikipedia
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