His egocentricity and quirks are of course not left out of the movie. What sets this movie apart from others is that it portrays General Montgomery as a competent military professional and not only focus on his personality disorders. The relationship with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, US Army play an important role in the movie. There are no action sequences in this movie it focuses on the inner workings of SHEAF, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force which led to a successful invasion on French soil.The movie, of course, focusses on General Eisenhower and the decisions he had to make and the resulting pressure he had to cope with. This is not one of the most well-known movies about the Normandy invasion and it’s rather difficult to imagine Tom Selleck as the mustache-less supreme commander of all allied forces, but somehow he manages to pull it off. Being not a movie but a miniseries and only focusing on the American airborne side, it ends up on the 5th place.
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