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The Long Day's Dying is a 1968 British Techniscope war film directed by Peter Collinson, and starring David Hemmings, Tony Beckley and Tom Bell. It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Alan White.
The Long Day's Dying: Directed by Peter Collinson. With David Hemmings, Tony Beckley, Tom Bell, Alan Dobie. The saga of three British soldiers and their German captive as they trek through the European countryside.
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- Drama, War
- Peter Collinson
- 1968-05-28
The saga of three British soldiers and their German captive as they trek through the European countryside. Based on the novel by Alan White.
Finally arriving within sight of the British lines, the three survivors sing British songs to show that they are friendly. However, a line of tracer bullets is fired, and Tom is mortally wounded. In a mad frenzy, the pacifist John leaps on the wounded Helmut and drives a skewer into his heart.
A somewhat arty anti-war film from The Italian Job director Peter Collinson and The Charge of the Light Brigade and How I Won the War screenwriter Charles Wood, The Long Day's Dying is certainly a curio but it does not deserve it's neglected status.
- Peter Collinson
- Paramount Pictures
A German officer tries to guide three British soldiers (David Hemmings, Tom Bell, Tony Beckley) to safety during World War II.
- War, Drama
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