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1959

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Starring	Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, George Peppard, James Edwards
Director	Lewis Milestone
Genres	Action/Adventure, Drama

Pork Chop Hill

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, cliché-ridden war films). Among the American troops are such dependable performers as Harry Guardino, Woody Strode, Rip Torn, Barry Atwater, George Peppard, Robert Blake and Martin Landau. Former cowboy-star Bob Steele also shows up briefly as an American general. According to director Lewis Milestone, Pork Chop Hill was cut by nearly twenty minutes because the wife of star Gregory Peck felt that her husband made his first entrance too late into the picture. True or not, the film does show signs of post-production tampering, with flashes of several excised scenes showing up under the main title credits.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Starring	Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, George Peppard, James Edwards, Woody Strode
Director	Lewis Milestone
Studio	MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 34 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1959 To Rent: DVD: 05 Apr 2004

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- A film that might have been an only slightly lesser echo of Milestone's marvellous A Walk in the Sun in its concern for... read more on Time Out
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  Still one of the best
  
  Both the Americans and British who fought in Korea call this The Forgotten War, and this is mirrored by the few films made about that conflict. Pork Chop Hill ... read more »
  
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  must see
  
  an absolute classic in monochrome, precedes hamburger hill by a few decades. gregory peck at his best, i wish i could see the original length version.
  
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  Still one of the best
  
  Both the Americans and British who fought in Korea call this The Forgotten War, and this is mirrored by the few films made about that conflict. Pork Chop Hill ... read more »
  
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  Good Classic Film
  
  I love this film ! Good to watch if your a fan of war films !
  
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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 ...