The Long Day's Dying is a 1968 British Techniscope war film directed by Peter Collinson, and starring David Hemmings, Tony Beckley and Tom Bell.

The second of the enemy attackers is stalked by the paratroopers who virtually toy with their victim before John kills him, finishing the man off up close, although the experience renders him sick.

The British soon turn the tables and capture Helmut but the latter, who speaks English, manages to manipulate his captors into keeping him alive.

But where he goes badly wrong is that instead of underplaying the deaths that are the end result of the soldiers' games, he gives them an entirely false – and worse, self-consciously artistic – emphasis.

... Charles Wood's script has the same fault, developing the relationship between the paratroopers and their wily prisoner with some subtlety, but in its succession of interior monologues and would-be significant staccato exchanges striking the same exhibitionist note as Collinson's tasteless insistence on ramming home his message.

Smug, dimestore Existential ...stale, self-important and tough ... No characterization ... One for the English antiwar cheapshot satire brigade".

[5] Mark Connelly wrote (in 2003): "Critics hated the film, finding in it much the same faults as they identified in The Charge of the Light Brigade [1968]".