Pork Chop Hill

Lewis Milestone (1959)

93min

PG Certificate

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by Tony Sloman

This is the definitive Korean War movie from director Lewis Milestone, who dealt with the Second World War impressively in A Walk in the Sun and the First World War unforgettably in the classic All Quiet on the Western Front. Bleak and grim, it boasts a superb all-male cast headed by Gregory Peck at his glummest. Watch out for the young Martin Landau and Harry Dean Stanton (billed here as plain Dean Stanton) amid all the shrapnel. As with Milestone's other war films, the action sequences are terrific.

Summary

American troops fighting in Korea capture a strategically vital hill, but have difficulty defending it against enemy counter-attacks - and when reinforcements arrive, their numbers are too few to make much difference. Drama, starring Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, Woody Strode and George Peppard.

Cast & Crew

Lt Clemons Gregory Peck

Forstman Harry Guardino

Lt Russell Rip Torn

Fedderson George Peppard

Franklin Woody Strode

MacFarland Harry Dean Stanton

Cpl Jurgens James Edwards

Kern Bob Steele

Director Lewis Milestone

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Language: EnglishBlack and whiteGuidance: Violence.Available on: video, DVD and Blu-ray

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