Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

TurboarrowIII I had never seen this before today.The title is misleading as there is only a very small part actually about D-Day itself near the end.Two men, played by Robert Taylor and Richard Todd, are in love with the same woman played by Dana Wynter. They also happen to end up fighting alongside one another on a Normandy beach on D-Day.A lot of the film centres on the relationship between Wynter and Taylor. Todd, who was already in love with Wynter, is meant to be fighting overseas for a lot of the time and doesn't feature that much. He discovers the affair towards the end and ends up being Taylor's commanding officer on D-Day. He takes the affair very well and doesn't even get angry with Taylor about it.I found it very talky and there is only really any action in the last 15 minutes or so.The stars put in good performances but it shouldn't have been called D-Day the Sixth of June simply because it features only briefly.Overall this is a bit of a disappointing love story rather than an action packed account of the magnificent events of D-Day.

ianlouisiana Posh bird's posh English bloke steps on landmine,presumably to leave way clear for Yank who,after a near - death experience(and how we sympathise having endured one ourselves for ninety - odd minutes)belatedly becomes conscience - stricken and it all ends in what passes for tears in that stuffy upper - middle - class English way i.e. Miss D.Wynter walks off between the Nissen huts as if she was on her way to view a particularly enthralling exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show. At 45 Mr R.Taylor looks ten years older in his unforgiving close - ups,appearing tired and listless,not even snogging the divine Miss W saves him from terminal ennui.The thought that she should prefer him to small but perfectly - formed fighting dynamo Mr R.Todd is,frankly,ludicrous. "D.Day,the sixth of June" was brought to us by the man who would later direct "The Singing Nun".If that is a recommendation to you then you should read no further. If produced in wartime there might have been some excuse for Mr H.Koster's flagwaving and frankly sloppy direction.In the U.S.Army's London HQ the seduction of the English female seems to be the officers' main raison d'etre rather than the destruction of the Hun. We are supposed to find that amusing and endearing presumably,rather than tiresome if not downright immoral. Mr Taylor's superior is the clearly potty Mr E. O'Brien who,instead of seeking the bird colonel's badge should be seeking a straightjacket. With this bunch in charge I'm surprised the Yanks found their way to Europe without a telescope and a sniffer dog. After a meet - cute with Miss Wynter,Mr Taylor regains her acquaintance on a train to London where he makes himself popular in the good old American way by supplying the natives with fags. With Mr Todd away being heroic in North Africa Miss Wynter is of course helpless in the face of Mr Taylor's charm obviously wearing the type of drawers known as "One Yank and they're off". Eventually her two swains meet on "D.Day,the sixth..etc,etc,".Mr Taylor receives a nasty wound and Mr Todd is unscathed as they make their way to the boats to return to England. For some unfathomable reason Mr Todd chooses to ignore "Don't walk over there,we haven't swept it yet" from a helpful G.I. and strolls blithely across a minenfelden left by those mean Huns and blows himself up. War is Hell. Seventeen years earlier,Mr Taylor played a U.S. Army officer in the infinitely superior Mervyn Leroy "Waterloo Bridge" with the sublime Miss V.Leigh.If you feel the need to see him in a well - cut uniform court a beautiful English Rose I urge you to look out for it. Both he and the concept of the Yank officer charming his way into English drawing rooms were getting close to the respective sell - by dates by 1956.

Martin Bradley Atrocious wartime romance filmed in widescreen and colour and very typical of its period, (it was made in the mid-fifties). Actually it has nothing very much to do with D-Day, (and it's so awful as to be something of an insult to the men who fought and died then). Rather that's when it begins as two of the men on board one of the ships, an American, (the inexplicably popular Robert Taylor), and a Brit, (the somewhat more charismatic Richard Todd), reminiscence in flashback about the woman they both love, (the beautiful but vacuous Dana Wynter). If it were better made, (it's directed by the monumentally untalented Henry Koster), it might have been tolerable but even by the standards of fifties' romantic tosh this is a real turkey, plucked, stuffed and oven-ready.

march9hare Okay, we'll keep this one short: lots of big stars (Robert Taylor, Dana Wynter, Edmund O'Brien, et al), lots of extras, lots and lots of talking, but absolutely no sense of urgency or feeling of impending action is present in this hour and 46 minute blabfest. In fact, for the first 80 minutes, nothing much happens. Yes, Taylor is quite handsome in his military uniform and, yes, Ms. Wynter is very fetching in her military uniform and, yes, a predictable romance develops with an equally predictable ending, but THAT'S IT!! That's the whole plodding film in a nutshell. Believe us, if movies about the greatest invasion in history are the sort of thing that floats your boat, you would be much better advised to stick with "The Longest Day". This over-processed turkey spread shoulda stayed in the can.