Rating: NR
Genre:
Romance
Release Date: 05/21/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD4.0/DDS2.0
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children, War Violence
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
We don't see much of Omaha Beach in
D-Day, the Sixth of June. Instead, the film concentrates on a romantic triangle involving American officer
Robert Taylor, British officer
Richard Todd and the lovely
Dana Wynter.
Taylor and
Todd spend the last hours before D-Day reminiscing about
Wynter. The romantic dilemma is eventually solved shortly after the invasion, when one of the men conveniently steps on a land mine.
Lionel Shapiro's novel was geared more for the beach-and-bonbons crowd than war buffs, and the film follows suit.
20th Century-Fox gives a far more thorough account of D-Day itself in 1963's
The Longest Day. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide