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Pork Chop Hill

  • 1959
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  • 1h 37m
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7.0/10
5.6K
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Gregory Peck in Pork Chop Hill (1959)
During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.
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During the Korean War peace talks in Panmunjom, U.S. troops fight and die trying to retake a worthless hill from the Communist Chinese forces.During the Korean War peace talks in Panmunjom, U.S. troops fight and die trying to retake a worthless hill from the Communist Chinese forces.During the Korean War peace talks in Panmunjom, U.S. troops fight and die trying to retake a worthless hill from the Communist Chinese forces.

  • Director
    • Lewis Milestone
  • Writers
    • S.L.A. Marshall
    • James R. Webb
  • Stars
    • Gregory Peck
    • Harry Guardino
    • Rip Torn
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    5.6K
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    • Director
      • Lewis Milestone
    • Writers
      • S.L.A. Marshall
      • James R. Webb
    • Stars
      • Gregory Peck
      • Harry Guardino
      • Rip Torn
    • 60User reviews
    • 30Critic reviews
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    Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck
    • Lt. Joe Clemons
    Harry Guardino
    Harry Guardino
    • Pvt. Forstman
    Rip Torn
    Rip Torn
    • Lt. Walter Russel
    George Peppard
    George Peppard
    • Cpl. Chuck Fedderson
    Carl Benton Reid
    Carl Benton Reid
    • American Admiral at Peace Conference
    James Edwards
    James Edwards
    • Cpl. Jurgens
    Bob Steele
    Bob Steele
    • Col. Kern
    Woody Strode
    Woody Strode
    • Pvt. Franklin
    George Shibata
    • Lt. Suki Ohashi
    Norman Fell
    Norman Fell
    • Sgt. Coleman
    Lew Gallo
    Lew Gallo
    • Lieutenant - Division Public Relations
    Robert Blake
    Robert Blake
    • Pvt. Velie
    Cliff Ketchum
    • Cpl. Payne - Radio Operator
    Biff Elliot
    Biff Elliot
    • Pvt. Boven
    Charles Aidman
    Charles Aidman
    • Lt. Harrold
    Barry Atwater
    Barry Atwater
    • Lt. Col. Davis - Battalion Commander
    Viraj Amonsin
    • Chinese Broadcaster
    Michael Garth
    • S-2 Officer
    • Director
      • Lewis Milestone
    • Writers
      • S.L.A. Marshall
      • James R. Webb
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    jlpicard1701E

    They don't make them like this anymore...

    War movie? Anti-war movie? For you to judge on this one.

    Fact is that this is a crude depiction of what happened a bit everywhere in the Korean war.

    Gregory Peck, a gentleman of an actor, delivers a very strong performance as an officer tasked to take that darn hill. His conflict goes both ways.

    He has to order his men to "get out there and take the Hill at all costs" and at the same time he has to keep their spirits together before they totally crack-up.

    In fact, you actually can feel the bombs and the mortars shelling you throughout the movie. Imagine how you would feel if you had actually been there...

    This is probably a good companion to "M*A*S*H" (the Movie and/or the TV series). It's just on the other side of those Hills. It's these boys who were delivered on Hawkeye's operation table.

    Never forget that!

    It's honest, well played and has much less war-glorifying aspects than one would imagine or expect.

    The DVD edition is a bit better than its VHS counterpart and is in the correct 1.85:1 aspect ratio.

    Now, if some producer is still able to make a 90 minute movie with a similar gripping story nowadays, then you may call me Santa Claus!
    10Jay V.

    Gregory Peck, glorious black and white, and intense action--what more do you want?

    I think when movies like Saving Private Ryan or Platoon came out people thought that these represented "new" insights on the war movie. Unfortunately, I guess they'd never seen a number of classic old films, such as Hell Is For Heroes (Steve McQueen), Sahara (Humphrey Bogart), or, indeed, Pork Chop Hill, starring Gregory Peck.

    I've seen Pork Chop Hill three or four times. It is, from what I understand, a historically accurate account of one of the last fifty years' most famous battles, based on the book by famous military historian Gen. S. L. A. "Slam" Marshall. The scene is at the end of the Korean War. Negotiations between the combatants have stalemated. LT1 Joe Clemons (played by Gregory Peck) is ordered to take Pork Chop Hill, a basically worthless piece of territory to demonstrate to the Chinese and North Koreans that resolve had not flagged. So a night attack is ordered. Fog of war messes the whole thing up repeatedly and Clemons is left holding the bag, with his company of men stuck in the assault without the backup they expected to happen. The story is very human, particularly the interaction between Clemons and his second in command, Ohashi. You see men determined to win even though they know they might die (and for what?), men on the verge of breaking only to be rallied or not, the utter confusion of battle. The movie's got a lot of then-unknowns, but later stars, e.g., George Peppard, Rip Torn, etc.
    8barnabyrudge

    Fine antiwar drama from one of the genre's greatest directors.

    One of the finest (anti)war movies ever made is undoubtedly the 1930 epic All Quiet On The Western Front, directed by the incomparable Lewis Milestone. 29 years later, Milestone once again turned his attention to the waste and futility of war with Pork Chop Hill. This powerful and well-made Korean War drama is not quite in the same league as Milestone's earlier classic, but it still paints a vivid picture of the harsh realities of combat, and conveys a palpable sense of the pointlessness of war.

    Lieutenant Clemons (Gregory Peck) is a honest, dependable American soldier fighting in the Korean War. He believes in carrying out orders whatever they may be, but his attitude is put to the ultimate test when he is instructed to lead an attack on a tactically insignificant hill in the dying days of the war. Issuing orders which he knows will lead to pointless loss of life, Clemons leads his men up the titular hill into a maelstrom of enemy gunfire, looking on in horror and dismay as his boys are gunned down or blown to bits in their futile quest.

    After the film had been shot, Milestone was somewhat irritated to discover that the studio had tampered with his intentions, adding a misleading last-scene voice-over which tried to suggest that the victory on Pork Chop Hill made a significant difference to the future of millions of Koreans. The film is at its best when delivering its anti-war sensibilities, especially the bitter scenes showing honest young soldiers losing their lives for no particular reason. In historical terms, the capture of Pork Chop Hill was both costly in lives and irrelevant in consequence. The performances are generally first-rate. Peck is excellent as the man who tries to justify the insanity of what his platoon have been ordered to do. He gives his best performance since Twelve O'Clock High a decade earlier. Giving memorable supporting turns are familiar character actors like Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard and Martin Landau, all of them resisting the urge to appear as gung-ho heroes to add to the film's stance that war is a meaningless and expensive pursuit. There have been few genuinely worthy Korean War films but this one and M*A*S*H - released 11 years later - are recommended titles for anyone looking for authentic film treatments about the subject.
    jacksonc

    one of the best and one of the few about Korean War

    Pork Chop Hill is to films about the Korean War (when more than 50,000 men die, it is a war, not a "conflict") what Go Tell the Spartans is to the Viet Nam War. Neither of them are artificially dramatic, both are understated, both tell the story pretty much as it was, or, at least, as close as Hollywood gets. This entire movie represents the Korean War very well including the posturing at the peace talks. Some people are now calling Korea "the forgotten war." This is regrettably true. More people should see Pork Chop Hill.
    7ShotgunHemingway

    A Fine War Film

    One of the few classic films about the Korean war, Pork Chop Hill is a genuinely good specimen of a nitty gritty war film in the pre-blood and guts era. What the movie lacks in realistic language and violence it more than makes up for in intensity. Peck is amazing, as usual, as Lt. Joe Clemons, the man leading the charge on the hill. His performance of a man on the edge is very believable. Sympathizing with his plight to try and get reinforcements or the heck outta there is an easy task. The early civil rights-era film seems to also touch on some social issues, showing a camaraderie between all ethnicities. Overall, this is a fine example of a classic war film with one of the finest American actors of all time in the lead role...you can't go wrong.

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    • Trivia
      Gregory Peck personally chose Lewis Milestone to direct because Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) had made a deep impression on him.
    • Goofs
      All of the American officers are wearing their bright rank insignia and Infantry branch insignia. In reality, officers rarely wore these items in the front lines because they identified them as leaders who then became prime targets for enemy snipers.
    • Quotes

      Lt. Joe Clemons: [to his commanders via radio] I have about 25 men, they are completely spent. I expect a heavy attack at dark, that'll be about a half an hour from now, unless we can be reinforced, I recommend we withdraw. Over.

    • Crazy credits
      Following the opening credits and opening scenes: A RESERVE POSITION NEAR PORK CHOP HILL--70 MILES FROM THE PEACE CONFERENCE AT PUNMUNJOM-KOREA-1953
    • Connections
      Edited into The Our Gang Story (1994)
    • Soundtracks
      Autumn in New York
      Composed by Vernon Duke

      Played over loudspeakers by Chinese broadcaster

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    • Release date
      • June 14, 1959 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Mit Blut geschrieben
    • Filming locations
      • Patagonia, Arizona, USA
    • Production company
      • Melville Productions
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      • $14,200
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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