So much average

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

D-Day the Sixth of June? My opinion, the title needs to be a sudsy soap opera. Maybe partying in London Fog? If one wants to see a great movie about WW II, see The Longest Day. My opinion, this movie, D-Day the Sixth of June, is a total ripoff. Many of the characters being portrayed are terrible representations of our soldiers performance in this war. My opinion, the kissing scenes seem to be something out of the Three Stooges. It appears the most often scenes are Dana Wynter carrying a tray with tea things. This must have taken a lot of rehearsing to get her performance to the point she did not drop the tray. Maybe one will like the movie if one likes dancing? My opinion, at the very start of the movie show all lead actors standing around being drunk and disorderly and then being hit by a buzz bomb. The movie ends one minute later showing their tombstones. So this would be like a three minute movie sort of like a three minute egg.

just wasted 90+ minutes of my time watching this on American Movie Classics. This is ANYTHING BUT a "classic". I suppose the director/writers thought we should have empathy for a couple who are cheating on their wife and fiancé (?). And talk about a misleading title - R U kidding me ! The story could've been placed around ANY battle or war and pretty much remained the same. I enjoy WWII movies as much (probably more) than anyone and this is without a doubt one of the worst of literally dozens I've seen on AMC, TMC, or rented via Netflix. I also enjoy a good love story - but this one is just too hard to stomach.

Despite the imposing title D-Day the Sixth of June which might lead one to believe it is an account of the Normandy invasion. It is in fact and old fashioned war romance. For Robert Taylor this was a throwback picture, back to the kind of romantic stuff he did in his early days of being MGM's number one pin-up boy. Dana Wynter has Richard Todd as her steady beau who's gone to war just as America's gotten into it via Pearl Harbor. Todd goes missing in action and Wynter in her best British stiff upper lip style goes to help in the war effort herself as the Nazis loom perilously close to the island kingdom.Robert Taylor gets to be one of the first American officers assigned over in Europe and Wynter and he meet via an altercation her father, John Williams, has with some bumptious GIs. Wynter diplomatically smooths things out and she and Taylor develop a relationship. It can't really go anywhere because Taylor's married. But they're both in need of each other at the moment.Curiously enough this does parallel the situation of the Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower who carried on an affair with his British driver Kay Summersby. Ike of course was married and Kay was a war widow.Todd does make it back and that does complicate matters. All this in the shadow of the impending cross-channel invasion.Richard Todd had a promising career during the 1950s. He became well known to American audiences via his appearance in some Disney films and other American productions. Strangely enough it seemed to halt in the following decade and the international stardom that beckoned never came to fruition. He was a fine player capable of a wide variety of roles, even being a villain in a Hitchcock film. But I personally like him best as a hero.And a genuine hero he was. He was actually at D-Day as a British Commando and won a whole slew of medals. Bob Taylor also was in the Armed Forces in World War II, he did three years in Uncle Sam's Navy in the Pacific.Dana Wynter I've always thought of as a British version of Ava Gardner. And she had the talent to match. She also should have had a bigger career. I would say her beauty is regal and lo and behold she actually made that statement true when she portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in a film about Charles and Diana. For war picture fans there's still enough action to satisfy. The only other role of real significance was Edmond O'Brien as Taylor's boss at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. Another reviewer said his role was not developed well. I wish it had been myself. But it probably would have taken away from the romance.

...and that's just Robert Taylor. There is a style of acting that was in vogue in the 1950's called "dead from the neck down" and that describes Taylor to a T. The film is excruciatingly plodding, and the plot is quite morally vacant. Taylor and Wynter are both cheating on their partners and it's hard to see what they see in each other: He indulges in so much Brit-bashing and bitches about the US allies throughout the movie you would think he wouldn't want to become contaminated by them, and once Richard Todd, Wynter's former love, appears on the scene, the little Englishman just acts Taylor off the screen...even when we, finally, get to the war action, it's Todd who is all testosterone and wins the battle. I actually found the film somewhat offensive and almost a complete waste of time.