Pork Chop Hill1959
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
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Cast
as Lt. Joe Clemons
as Cpl. Chuck Fedderson
as Pvt. Forstman
as Lt. Walter Russel
as Cpl. Jurgens
as Kern
as Franklin
as Lt. O'Hashi
as Sgt. Coleman
as Velie
as Bowen
as Davis
as S-2 Officer
as Gen. Trudeau
as Sgt. Kreucheberg
as McKinley
as PI Officer
as Cpl. Payne
as Marshall
as Lt. Cummings
as Cpl. Kissell
as MacFarland
as Lt. Cook
as Sgt. Kuzmick
as Saxon
as Lt. Waldorf
as Olds
as Harrold
as Chalmers
as Radio Operator
as Soldier Runner
as Iron Man
as Chinese Broadcaster
as Olds
as Lt. Attridge
Critic Reviews for Pork Chop Hill
All Critics (5) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (1)
Corny characterisation makes it a bore; the makers' attitude makes it a puzzle.
Told in a hard-nosed style.
Gritty war, actually anti-war, movie directed by Lewis Milestone of "All Quiet on the Western Front" fame.
In many ways the first modern war film.
Audience Reviews for Pork Chop Hill
A company of American soldiers stationed in Korea suffer terrible losses when ordered to take a strategically unimportant hill from Chinese forces. Pork Chop Hill was directed by Lewis Milestone who was no stranger to the genre having directed the classic All Quiet On The Western Front and here he pretty much invented the modern war movie. Influencing everything from Zulu to Black Hawk Down, its power is in its gritty realism and unrelenting depiction of terrifying and seemingly meaningless violence. It was based upon real accounts and written by a veteran soldier which gives it a real authenticity and is very unsentimental in its representation of the soldier on the ground, avoiding the usual soap opera back stories of the central characters. Instead it jumps straight into the action and virtually the entire film is set in the blood soaked trenches. Woody Strode's sole dissenter adds a mild socio-political element which was expanded on the great effect in the Vietnam-based remake Hamburger Hill and solid performances all round make for a quality war film that won't change the mind of anyone who dislikes the genre but will be a potential favourite of those who do.
Super Reviewer
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. :)
Super Reviewer
Pork Chop Hill Quotes
| Lt. Joe Clemons: | Douse those lights! You want to murder us? Turn out those damn lights!! |
| Lt. Joe Clemons: | Douse those lights! You want to murder us? Turn out those damn lights! |