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CriticCrunch has 5 David Pursall titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Longest Day.
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Dir. Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton · With John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
Dir. George Pollock · With Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow

A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.
Dir. George Pollock · With Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
Dir. George Pollock · With Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Stringer Davis

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Dir. John Guillermin · With George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress
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