Pork Chop Hill (1959)

Directed by

Lewis Milestone

Genre

war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

16

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 74 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This war film follows American soldiers during a brutal battle for a strategic hill in the Korean War. It shows the chaos and sacrifice of combat as troops fight against overwhelming enemy forces.

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What happens

For the Korean War battles, see Battle of Pork Chop Hill. Pork Chop Hill is a 1959 American Korean War film starring Gregory Peck, Woody Strode, Rip Torn, and George Peppard. The film, which was the final war film directed by Lewis Milestone, is based upon the 1956 book by U.S. military historian Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall. It depicts the first fierce Battle of Pork Chop Hill between the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry Division and Chinese and North Korean forces in April 1953. The film features numerous actors who would go on to become movie and television stars in the 1960s and the 1970s such as Woody Strode, Harry Guardino, Robert Blake, George Peppard, Norman Fell, Abel Fernandez, Gavin MacLeod, Harry Dean Stanton, and Clarence Williams III. It is also the screen debut of Martin Landau and George Shibata, who was a West Point classmate of Lieutenant Joe Clemons, who also acted as technical adviser on the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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