John Wayne and Robert Mitchum were two of the biggest Western ... Both actors starred in the World War 2 ensemble The Longest Day, which covered the D-Day landings from both the Allied and German ...

A great 1945 war movie called The Story of G.I. Joe led to Robert Mitchum's only Oscar ... and in the classic war film The Longest Day (1962). He first rose to prominence in 1944's Thirty Seconds ...

where General Robert Mitchum tries to lead his beleaguered men up the dunes, and get his cigar to light. This stunningly realised 1962 restaging of D-Day is the last great war epic. The stars ...