- Pork Chop Hill
:: "For the
Korean War battles, seeBattle of Pork Chop Hill ."Infobox_Film
name = Pork Chop Hill
imdb_id = 0053183
director =Lewis Milestone
writer = S. L. A. Marshall
starring =Gregory Peck Woody Strode
released =29 May 1959
distributor =United Artists MGM (DVD release)
runtime = 97 min.
language = English"Pork Chop Hill" (1959), directed by
Lewis Milestone , is a Korean Warwar film based upon the eponymous book by military historianS. L. A. Marshall , depicting the bitterly fierce firstBattle 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 featuresGregory 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 , andGavin MacLeod .Plot
In April 1953, during the
Korean War , a company of American infantry are to recapture Pork Chop Hill from a largerCommunist 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 thePanmunjeom 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?
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