RYAN O'NEAL TOO YOUNG?

Rating: Null/10 (24 March 2003)

It has been suggested that a drawback to this marvellous film is the comparative youth of Ryan O'Neal as General Gavin.
O'Neal was 36 in 1977, the year the film was made, and the General's obituary in 1990 gave his age as 82, so he would have been 36 in 1944.
No problem there, then!
Incidentally, one of my favourite film actors was the incomparable Robert Ryan, but there can be no denying that, pushing 50, he was significantly too old to play Gavin in 'The Longest Day'.