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Pork Chop Hill (1959)

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Pork Chop Hill was based on the eyewitness essays of ex-soldier S. L. A. Marshall. The film is set during the Korean "police action." While diplomats argue pointlessly over the shape of the negotiation tables at Panmunjon, United Nations troops bleed and die. Lieutenant Gregory Peck leads a 135-man unit on the attack of the Chinese-held Pork Chop Hill. When reinforcements finally arrive, only 25 of Peck's men survive (and they aren't the usual survivors we've come to expect from earlier,

Unrated, 1 hr. 37 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics

Directed By: Lewis Milestone

Written By: James R. Webb

On DVD: May 15, 2001

MGM Home Entertainment

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Cast

Gregory Peck
Lt. Joe Clemons
Harry Guardino
Forstman
Rip Torn
Lt. Russell
George Peppard
Fedderson
George Shibata
Lt. O'Hashi
James Edwards
Corporal Jurgens
Woody Strode
Franklin
Bob Steele
Kern
Norman Fell
Sgt. Coleman
Robert Blake
Velie
Biff Elliot
Boven
Barry Atwater
Davis
Michael Garth
S-2 Officer
Ken Lynch
Gen. Trudeau
Paul Comi
Sgt. Kreucheberg
Abel Fernandez
McKinley
Lew Gallo
PI Officer
Cliff Ketchum
Cpl. Payne
Martin Landau
Marshall
Kevin Hagen
Cpl. Kissell
Leonard Graves
Lt. Cook
Syl Lamont
Sgt. Kuzmick
John Alderman
Lt. Waldorf
Charles Aidman
Harrold
Chuck Hayward
Chalmers
Buzz Martin
Radio Operator
Robert B. Williams
Soldier Runner
William Wellman Jr.
Iron Man
Gavin MacLeod
Saxon
Barry McGuire
Lt. Attridge
Carl Benton Reid
Bert Remsen
Lt. Cummings
Harry Dean Stanton
MacFarland
John R. McKee
Olds

Critic Reviews for Pork Chop Hill

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Told in a hard-nosed style.

July 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Gritty war, actually anti-war, movie directed by Lewis Milestone of "All Quiet on the Western Front" fame.

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Steve Crum

Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

In many ways the first modern war film.

October 11, 2006 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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This is the kind of classic war film that I loved as a kid. It's full of heroics, non-stop battle sequences and no yucky girls! Well, there is one girl, but she's a North Korean soldier and nobody ever kisses her so she doesn't count. :)

January 25, 2009

Randy Tippy

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One of the best war movies out there as Gregory Peck endures seeing the sacrifice of the lives of his men for no discernible reason during the Korean war. Gritty, powerful and thought provoking stuff.

April 10, 2007

xGary Xx

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