Having commissioned three Spitfires from COGEA to participate, screen time of the final cut was minimal and known publicity stills limited to just one.
Interestingly private images show that the ‘Cross of Lorraine’ emblem went through several iterations during the filming from small, medium to extra large as this recent colour find shows.
These shots all of MH415/OO-ARD coded GW-R for the film.
Mark
Image by Charles Mainget
By: Moggy C - 6th June 2014 at 12:37
As ever, my viewing tribute to D-Day will be to watch Foreign Field once more.
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th June 2014 at 12:11
I have an ancient VHS recording from TV of the colourised version. I’ve always thought it a shame they don’t include it as a bonus on the DVD or Blu-Ray releases. Not sure it would be possible to find it now?
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th June 2014 at 11:02
who can forget the ‘lancasters’ towing gliders into battle
That may not have happened but the Lancaster had been shown to be a more than capable tug for both the Horsa and Hamilcar, it was just that it was also more capable than the Halifax and Stirling as a bomber.
By: batsi - 6th June 2014 at 10:52
I once watched on TV in Nigeria, it was obviously being broadcast from the reels they used in the cinema because they mixed up the running order and the intro was projected out of order about 1 hour into the broadcast!
By: Moggy C - 6th June 2014 at 10:51
Be grateful for that.
We all know WW2 was fought in b&w.
All in all I don’t rate The Longest Day as a bad film. And the day I start fretting if it’s Lancasters towing the gliders or not is the day you can bury me with a copy of the Ian Allen spotters book.
Moggy
By: AlanR - 6th June 2014 at 09:41
I was watching the film several years ago, on a Saturday afternoon. I kept thinking to myself,
“there’s something different about this”, and it took me a while to realize what.
It was a colourized cut of the film, which I hadn’t seen before or seen again.
By: jettisoning - 6th June 2014 at 09:36
the longest day
a travesty of the events of june 6 1944 – who can forget the ‘lancasters’ towing gliders into battle ………… ??
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