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World War Ii | D-day
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Outstanding SingleCamera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie | 2004
Outstanding Made for Television Movie | 2004
Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries Movie or a Special | 2004
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries Movie or a Special | 2004
Outstanding SingleCamera Picture Editing for a Miniseries Movie or a Special | 2004
Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries Movie or a Dramatic Special | 2004
Breakaway Performance | 2005 | Tom
Outstanding Producer of LongForm Television | 2005
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Movies and MiniSeries | 2005 | Tony
Minute or Longer Category | 2005 | Lionel
Tom Selleck, a non-smoker, temporarily took up the habit to play Dwight Eisenhower, who was, according to Selleck in the DVD's bonus feature, a four-pack-a-day smoker at the time. In 1949, Eisenhower was advised by his doctor and friend, Howard Snyder, to cut down on the cigarettes to one pack per day. Eisenhower initially did so, but after a few days, he decided that counting cigarettes was worse than smoking and quit permanently in 1949. He never smoked again.
A written message written by Eisenhower and taking full responsibility by him and to be issued to the media should the D-Day landings fail was found in one of the pockets of his military uniforms years later after D-Day. These details about this message were worked into this tele-movie's script.
D-Day was on the 6th of June 1944. This tele-movie marked the 60th Anniversary of D-Day as it was both filmed and first broadcast in 2004, sixty years after D-Day.
Both Tom Selleck and co-star Timothy Bottoms portray men who went to become President. Tom Selleck playing Dwight D Eisenhower who became President after Harry S. Truman; Timothy Bottoms portrayed George W. Bush, President from 2001 to 2009 in DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003), also written by Lionel Chetwynd.
This film is a rare occurrence in which both Tom Selleck and Gerald McRaney appear without their trademark mustaches, in order to play two well-known real-life historical figures who did not have mustaches.
"King George VI: I am impressed by the detail, the comprehensiveness of your planning. The expected losses, the sheer carnage... Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: I also ache at that thought, your majesty. I remember my first trip to Europe as a young man, and I felt blessed to be here, to see it, to touch the origins of my own country that I love so dearly. I hoped one day all young Americans will have the same opportunity. Now hundreds of thousands will, along with Britons, and Canadians and European Allies fighting to return home. This kind of visit isn't what I had in mind. But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some must die, it is in a worthy cause."
"Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Dearest Mamie... Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: ...at last the days grow longer and we will soon be in it. I face that with neither dread nor joy. How I wish this cruel business of war could be completed quickly. It leaves me heartsick to think of sending so many young men against Hitler's Atlantic wall. I admit to having developed a veneer of callousness, but counting the human cost is a terribly sad business, and no veneer of callousness allows me to escape the truth that back home the news brings anguish and suffering. So many youngsters already gone forever. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters back home must have a difficult time retaining any belief in the internal rightness of things. There is no true glory in war."
"King George VI: I am impressed by the detail, the comprehensiveness of your planning. The expected losses, the sheer carnage... Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: I also ache at that thought, your majesty. I remember my first trip to Europe as a young man, and I felt blessed to be here, to see it, to touch the origins of my own country that I love so dearly. I hoped one day all young Americans will have the same opportunity. Now hundreds of thousands will, along with Britons, and Canadians and European Allies fighting to return home. This kind of visit isn't what I had in mind. But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some must die, it is in a worthy cause."
"Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Dearest Mamie... Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: ...at last the days grow longer and we will soon be in it. I face that with neither dread nor joy. How I wish this cruel business of war could be completed quickly. It leaves me heartsick to think of sending so many young men against Hitler's Atlantic wall. I admit to having developed a veneer of callousness, but counting the human cost is a terribly sad business, and no veneer of callousness allows me to escape the truth that back home the news brings anguish and suffering. So many youngsters already gone forever. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters back home must have a difficult time retaining any belief in the internal rightness of things. There is no true glory in war."
