ianlouisiana Posh bird's posh English bloke steps on landmine,presumably to leave way clear for Yank who,after a near - death experience(and how we sympathise having endured one ourselves for ninety - odd minutes)belatedly becomes conscience - stricken and it all ends in what passes for tears in that stuffy upper - middle - class English way i.e. Miss D.Wynter walks off between the Nissen huts as if she was on her way to view a particularly enthralling exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show. At 45 Mr R.Taylor looks ten years older in his unforgiving close - ups,appearing tired and listless,not even snogging the divine Miss W saves him from terminal ennui.The thought that she should prefer him to small but perfectly - formed fighting dynamo Mr R.Todd is,frankly,ludicrous. "D.Day,the sixth of June" was brought to us by the man who would later direct "The Singing Nun".If that is a recommendation to you then you should read no further. If produced in wartime there might have been some excuse for Mr H.Koster's flagwaving and frankly sloppy direction.In the U.S.Army's London HQ the seduction of the English female seems to be the officers' main raison d'etre rather than the destruction of the Hun. We are supposed to find that amusing and endearing presumably,rather than tiresome if not downright immoral. Mr Taylor's superior is the clearly potty Mr E. O'Brien who,instead of seeking the bird colonel's badge should be seeking a straightjacket. With this bunch in charge I'm surprised the Yanks found their way to Europe without a telescope and a sniffer dog. After a meet - cute with Miss Wynter,Mr Taylor regains her acquaintance on a train to London where he makes himself popular in the good old American way by supplying the natives with fags. With Mr Todd away being heroic in North Africa Miss Wynter is of course helpless in the face of Mr Taylor's charm obviously wearing the type of drawers known as "One Yank and they're off". Eventually her two swains meet on "D.Day,the sixth..etc,etc,".Mr Taylor receives a nasty wound and Mr Todd is unscathed as they make their way to the boats to return to England. For some unfathomable reason Mr Todd chooses to ignore "Don't walk over there,we haven't swept it yet" from a helpful G.I. and strolls blithely across a minenfelden left by those mean Huns and blows himself up. War is Hell. Seventeen years earlier,Mr Taylor played a U.S. Army officer in the infinitely superior Mervyn Leroy "Waterloo Bridge" with the sublime Miss V.Leigh.If you feel the need to see him in a well - cut uniform court a beautiful English Rose I urge you to look out for it. Both he and the concept of the Yank officer charming his way into English drawing rooms were getting close to the respective sell - by dates by 1956.

cal reid The main issue i have with this film is that 98% of the film has nothing to do with D-DAY , it's about two officers on a boat talking about their romance with a woman. If the film had suggested that this would be the story that would have made it much better like if the title had been say "Two soldiers and a lady" that would have been good but calling it D-day the sixth of June is just totally wrong. It's like calling Manhunter the life of Hannibal Lector (for those of you who didn't get that joke Hannibal only shows up for about five minutes in Manhunter). Aside from the title being wrong the story is really uninteresting mainly because you want the film to show you you the bits with D-day in them because that's what the film has promised in the title but it never bloody shows them. If you want a really boring melodrama about love then yeah it's for you but other wise don't watch it and ignore the title completely.

Martin Bradley Atrocious wartime romance filmed in widescreen and colour and very typical of its period, (it was made in the mid-fifties). Actually it has nothing very much to do with D-Day, (and it's so awful as to be something of an insult to the men who fought and died then). Rather that's when it begins as two of the men on board one of the ships, an American, (the inexplicably popular Robert Taylor), and a Brit, (the somewhat more charismatic Richard Todd), reminiscence in flashback about the woman they both love, (the beautiful but vacuous Dana Wynter). If it were better made, (it's directed by the monumentally untalented Henry Koster), it might have been tolerable but even by the standards of fifties' romantic tosh this is a real turkey, plucked, stuffed and oven-ready.

boston 2step This film had it all. Action,romance,atmosphere & tremendous attention to detail as life was then. People living life to the full not knowing whether that day would be their last. I was only a young child in 1944 but this time period will be remembered long after I am dead & gone. My favourite character was Colonel Winter played by Richard Todd who was himself in volved in the fighting in Normandy & beyond. Colonel Timmer played by Edmund O Brian also stood out as the brash US officer. Dana Wynter's Valerie Russell's beauty typified the English rose of the period. Other performances by Robert Taylor & John Williams added to the sheer class of this film, well worth seeing despite being 50 years old.