Ike: Countdown to D-Day
2004 · 89 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 3,895 VOTES · DIR. Robert Harmon
Overview
The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,099 lines
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00:00:22 Let me put this another way.
00:03:23 No other general can make that claim.''
00:06:49 Those who drink too much and those who drink too little.
00:10:04 Unless the German knows where the slashing blow is coming.
00:13:34 And the Dutch and the Danes and God knows who else.
00:17:46 Let's keep him in Maidenhead, commanding his fictitious army.
00:21:40 ...that the bulk of our forces are in the east.
00:24:18 What can you give me in June, Stagg?
00:27:26 But that raises another problem, sir.
00:30:45 Well, we all need some recreation.
00:33:44 Watch it, colonel. Remember who you're talking to.
00:37:32 There is no inner circle. Only those who will live and those who will die.
00:41:48 Churchill makes the final decision on what they buy. Only him.
00:45:21 ...but easing off as they move past the pillboxes.
00:49:29 Good luck.
00:52:42 Words about blood and grief.
00:55:40 Oh, that's quite all right. Make yourself at home.
00:59:57 Damn. There goes another.
01:02:58 Divisional commanders can't factor in weather and the seas...
01:07:16 Attention, all ranks! General officer!
01:10:24 Only I shall decide what to do with Vichy officials.
01:14:27 ...ready to wash us away will lift in three hours or so.
01:18:24 I say, no turning back.
01:22:41 -All ready, then? -Yes, sir.
Cast & Characters
Tom Selleck
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
James Remar
Gen. Omar Bradley
Timothy Bottoms
Walter Bedell \"Beetle\" Smith
Ian Mune
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Bruce Phillips
Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery
John Bach
Air Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory
Nick Blake
Air Marshal Arthur W. Tedder
Kevin J. Wilson
RAdm. Bert Ramsay
Gerald McRaney
Gen. George S. Patton
Christopher James Baker
Group Cpt. Major James Stagg
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,099
Dialogue density12.3 lines / min
First line00:00:22
Final line01:22:41
Production Record
DirectorRobert Harmon
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes3,895