This wasn’t the only setback production faced in choosing a location, however.

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The resulting four-week shoot was a kind of terrifying organized chaos.

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks on the set of Saving Private Ryan

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Tom Hanks as Captain Miller, in a group of WWII soldiers on a boat in Saving Private Ryan

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Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

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