D-Day the Sixth of June
D-Day the Sixth of June is a 1956 American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope romance war film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry Koster and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Ivan Moffat and Harry Brown, based on the 1955 novel, The Sixth of June by Lionel Shapiro. The film stars Robert Taylor, Richard Todd (who participated in the Normandy landings in real life), Dana Wynter, and Edmond O'Brien.
Plot
A few hours before D-Day, Special Force Six, a joint American-British-Canadian commando unit, embarks to destroy an especially well-defended German coastal gun emplacement on the Normandy coast. As the landing ship steams towards it, its commander, an Englishman, and one of his subordinates, an American, reflect on their love for the same woman.
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| author | Harry Brown Ivan Moffat |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | London |
| director | Henry Koster |
| editor | William Mace |
| events | Operation Overlord World War II |
| genre | romance |
| keywords | arrest auxiliary territorial service break brigadier british commandos commando unit d-day dieppe raid dunkirk dunkirk evacuation european theatre of operations european theatre of world war ii henry j. f. miller kill land land mine married mine normandy parachute red cross repatriate repatriation subaltern wound |
| musicBy | Lyn Murray |
| producer | Charles Brackett |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| recordedAt | Century City Long Beach Naval Shipyard Point Dume |
| theme | war |