D-Day Sixth Day of June

Starring:Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter, Edmond O'Brien, John Williams (II), Jerry Paris, Robert Gist, Richard Wyler, Ross Elliott, Alex Finlayson, June Mitchell, Tom Pittman, Joe J. Garcia, Howard Price, Barry Coe, Grant Scott, Otto Reichow, Fred Coby, Conrad Feia, Marie Brown
Director: Henry Koster
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

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Episode Description: GiftSet Includes The Following Titles:

**D-Day: The 6th of June **Decision Before Dawn **Guadalcanal Diary **Halls of Montezuma

Customer Reviews:

War Collection.......2007-02-07

I felt that these movies were very good. The war collection was a great collection to add to my library. It was great seeing Richard Widmark in a war movie. In fact he is still living and is over 90 years of age.

Average customer rating:

Entertaining
Always check the reviews
War movie?
Three handkerchief weepie
A very much misunderstood romance but a wonderful movie!

D-Day Sixth Day of June
Starring: Robert Taylor , Richard Todd , Dana Wynter , Edmond O'Brien , and John Williams (II)
Director: Henry Koster
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000063URY
Release Date: 2002-05-21

Amazon.com

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

Description

Robert Taylor portrays an American officer on the front lines of the massive Allied landing, whose special commando unit must destroy a key German gun position. But for Capt. Parker (Taylor), the mission is also fraught with personal complications because he and his commander (Richard Todd) are in love with the same woman (Dana Wynter). Featuring Edmond O'Brien, and building to a stirring climax on the beaches of Normandy, D-Day The Sixth Of June is a moving story of courage and sacrifice both on and off the battlefield.

Customer Reviews:

Entertaining.......2007-06-02

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.......2007-05-30

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.

War movie?.......2007-01-30

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".

Three handkerchief weepie.......2005-10-03

You've got to feel a little sad for Dana in this one. Her American lover went home to his wife; her English lover trod on a bomb; and her father shot himself. Well, that's life I guess. There is some interest, but not a lot, in trying to figure out along the way how the story is going to get wrapped up. On the marginally plus side, it seems a fairly accurate depiction of how the war panned out for some women in Britain; and it captures something of the atmosphere on the home front. Not much about the action on the other front. I suppose most of the audience were pleased it hadn't happened to them.

A very much misunderstood romance but a wonderful movie!.......2005-05-28

I read many of the other reviews and I understand many thought the name is misleading and maybe is somewhat so, but that doesn't detract from the spectacular performances by Robert Taylor and Dana Wynter. What's so amazing is they capture perfectly and insightfully portray what it was like to experience the fear and lonliness many experienced in World War II. In all their emotional complexities of being away from home and family (Robert Taylor) or that of a loved one being off to war (Dana Wynters), these two heroes begin by finding comfort in their friendship. As time progresses and the pain of war begins taking it's toll on them, they find solace in each others arms. This romance is worthy of the classic movies like Casablanca and From here to Eternity where the same dilemma plagued Ingrid Bergman

Average customer rating:

Entertaining
Always check the reviews
War movie?
Three handkerchief weepie
A very much misunderstood romance but a wonderful movie!

D-Day, the Sixth of June
Starring: Robert Taylor , Richard Todd , Dana Wynter , Edmond O'Brien , and John Williams (II)
Director: Henry Koster
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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