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| D-Day, the Sixth of June | 
 enlarge | Director: Henry Koster
Actors: Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter, Edmond O'brien, John Williams (ii)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 50680
Format: Black & White, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 106
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2003952D
UPC: 024543039525
EAN: 0024543039525
ASIN: B00096S4AS
Theatrical Release Date: May 29, 1956
Release Date: May 21, 2002
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Condition: sealed mint condition dvd and complete artwork, IN STOCK RIGHT NOW
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D-Day the Sixth of June is a misleading title for a very tame wartime romance with barely 10 minutes of combat in the last reel. What we mostly get is a year's worth of flashbacks depicting the reluctant, London-based affair of a married U.S. staff officer (Robert Taylor) and a British Red Cross worker (Dana Wynter) whose commando suitor (Richard Todd) is fighting in Africa. To be sure, the emotional desperation and embattled decency of good people in time of war is as worthy of film treatment as any military campaign, and the script works preinvasion Anglo-American tensions into the story. But the CinemaScope production is utterly formulaic, with leaden direction by Henry Koster. Wynter's porcelain beauty apparently didn't permit changes of expression, and Taylor looks about 15 years past his prime. On the plus side, the DVD serves up Lee Garmes's pleasantly pastel Deluxe Color with commendable crispness. --Richard T. Jameson
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/13/2008
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Love story in a WWII setting July 19, 2008
A nice love story set in England at the toward the end of the war. There are some genuine human elements frequently avoided in war films, and they're covered realistically. The actors do a fine job. Visually it's a lovely film with the lone drawback of Robert Taylor cast in a role of a younger man. He didn't try to look or act too much younger (Holden's fatal flaw in Picnic), but the problem could have been avoided by just having the character be a little bit older.
 Entertaining June 2, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this movie - always have. I guess I'm more interested in the entertainment value than combat scenes (after all, "From Here to Eternity" is considered a classic and there is only a very small amount of combat at the end in that one as well). Of course, I would probably like any movie that had Dana Wynter, Robert Taylor and Richard Todd in it. Do I think this movie is Academy Award worthy? Of course not, but this movie is reminiscent of the old Hollywood love stories that I have enjoyed so much throughout my life and it has a wonderful cast.
 Always check the reviews May 30, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I will ALWAYS check with the reviews here on Amazon before I purchase another "Classic War" movie. I purchased this at Suncoast video and was expecting an epic WWII movie, you can all imagine my disappointment after sitting through 1-1/2 hours of this mess.
 ....D-DAY....THE ...SIXTH....OF...JUNE, 1944..... May 27, 2007
6JUN44....No doubt about it...the greatest day in modern/world history [then]...this movie depicts the lives of a few who lived in that momemtous moment in world/history...Capt Robert Taylor, an officer and a gentleman but ever-so-lonely away from his wife and family like all GIs...Richard Todd, a loyal Colonel in the British Commandos serving King and country with a maximum effort in combat...Dana Wynter, the daughter of a stern English Brigadier, beautiful, feminine and in love with Todd...and the guy who steals all of his scenes when the camera is on him[self]...Edmond O'Brien...his rakish portrayal as a blood and guts Lt. Colonel of a Special Service Unit to hit the D-Day beaches in advance of the enormous amphibious landing on that fateful day in Normandy...getting back to O'Brien's character which adds much to the military aspects of a egotistic loud/mouth and always looking for a headline that mortal combat is his rite of passage for his existence...his bedraggled/return to a safe harbor after the debacle at Dieppe was totally real...in a horse blanket for clothes and walking like he was on eggs/shells with that eternal thousand yard stare on his stunned kisser for having been blown out of his craft into the drink where he felt every German gunner was doing their utmost just to kill his lame-butt...he never got to the enemy shore!!....that's classic combat, I kid you naught...there are a zillion sweet romantic moments when Taylor can't get enough of Wynter [a torrid mutual cohabitation] is enchanting, yes,and even an enduring love... it is wartime England as bombs/rockets rain down on most of the port cities facing France...one must understand the frailty of human emotions to cram all the love and what it means to be love before one dies suddenly...which, is very heady existence, that only here and now is all that matters is conveyed so wonderful between Taylor and Wynter...even the officer: who Jerry Paris portrays is done extremely well as the cocktail/partying soldier who lives from one gin party/dance to another without any unpatriotic guilt whatsoever...I loved all the subplots that makeup how it was before D-Day and the GIs who were destined to be at this juncture of history...don't judge the lack of morals here unless you were "actually blown out of the water twice" ...darn good show of war and what it can do to soldier and citizens alike under fire.....Semper Fi....SSGT CHRIS SARNO-USMC FMF
 War movie? January 30, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
For the first five minutes I thought that this was going to be one of the best war movies I'd ever see, but then suddenly the movie back tracks to the years preceeding the D-Day invasion to document the love triangle that developed between a gorgeous woman and two of the officers in the commando unit. This lasts for much of the rest of the movie, with only five or ten minutes in the end consisting of a reasonably decent combat sequence. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of infidelity being masked as "romance," which made the movie all the more annoying to watch. This should simply not be considered a "war movie" or a "classic".
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