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Release Date: 1959
Cast: George Peppard, Norman Fell, Gregory Peck, Bob Steele, Martin Landau, Carl Benton Reid, Gavin MacLeod, William Wellman Jr., George Shibata, Woody Strode, James Edwards, Charles Aidman ...MORE
Cast: George Peppard, Norman Fell, Gregory Peck, Bob Steele, Martin Landau, Carl Benton Reid, Gavin MacLeod, William Wellman Jr., George Shibata, Woody Strode, James Edwards, Charles Aidman, Lew Gallo, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, Biff Elliot, Harry Dean Stanton ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Combat Films, Action/Adventure, Action, War Film
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... MORE
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.
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 prepare for a 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 continue.
Higher command is shown as being unwilling to either abandon or reinforce the hill. They will not reinforce the hill because the value of the hill is not worth further losses. They will not LESS
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