Pork Chop Hill
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- For the Korean War battles, see Battle of Pork Chop Hill.
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| Directed by | Lewis Milestone |
| Produced by | Sy Bartlett |
| Written by | S. L. A. Marshall |
| Starring | Gregory Peck Woody Strode |
| Distributed by | United Artists MGM (DVD release) |
| Release date(s) | 29 May 1959 |
| Running time | 94 min. |
| Language | English |
Pork Chop Hill (1959), directed by Lewis Milestone, is a Korean War war film based upon the eponymous book by military historian S. L. A. Marshall, depicting the bitterly fierce first Battle of Pork Chop Hill between the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry Division, and Chinese and Korean Communist forces at the tail end of the Korean War, in April 1953. The film features Gregory Peck, Woody Strode, and actors who became movie stars in the 1960s and the 1970s, e.g. George Peppard, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, Robert Blake, Norman Fell, Martin Landau, and Gavin MacLeod, with Harry Dean Stanton in an uncredited minor role.
[edit] Plot
In April 1953, during the Korean War, a company of American infantry are to recapture Pork Chop Hill from a larger Communist Chinese army force; they recapture the hill, but are depleted. They ready for the large-scale Chinese counter-attack which they know will overwhelm and kill them in vicious fire fights and hand-to-hand fighting while the Panmunjeom cease-fire negotiations continued.
Pork Chop Hill suggests that the Chinese continued losing soldiers in battle for a militarily insignificant hill simply to demonstrate Communist political resolve in bargaining. The question is: How will the Americans respond?
[edit] Cast
- Gregory Peck – as Lieutenant Joe Clemens
- Harry Guardino – as Private Forstman
- Rip Torn – as Lieutenant Walter Russell
- George Peppard – as Corporal Chuck Fedderson
- James Edwards – as Corporale Jurgens
- Bob Steele – as Kern
- Woody Strode – as Franklen
- George Shibata – as Lieutenant O'Hasbi
- Norman Fell – as Sergeant Coleman
- Carl Benton Reid – as American Admiral
- Robert Blake – as Velie
- Biff Elliot – as Private Boven
- Viraj Amonsin – as Chinese broadcaster
- Charles Aidman – as Lieutenant Harold
- Barry Atwater – as Lieutenant Colonel Davis
- Martin Landau – as Lieutenant Marshall
- Ken Lynch – as Major General Trudeau
- Chuck Hayward – as Chalmers
- Paul Comi – as Sergeant Kreucheberg
- Abel Fernandez – as Kindley
- Kevin Hagen – as Corporal Kissell
- Gavin MacLeod – as Private Saxon
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