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Pork Chop Hill
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0027616129833
Format: NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: December 02, 1993
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Editorial Review:
This gritty, grim Korean war drama presents the grueling ordeal of a platoon charged with taking a hill of no military value during the final days of the war. While diplomats and generals argue over peace negotiations (in an appropriately wordless montage under the opening credits), tough but compassionate Lt. Joe Clemons (Gregory Peck) leads a unit of 135 men up a well-guarded hill while miscommunication--and at times no communication--cuts them off from reinforcements and regimental command. Shot against a bleak, battle-scarred mountain of white dust honeycombed with black trenches, director Lewis Milestone presents the devastating battle as a meaningless sacrifice of hundreds of lives spent in a political game of chicken. Peck leads a terrific cast of young talents and character actors, many of them just starting their respective careers: Rip Torn, Harry Guardino, Martin Landau, Norman Fell, George Peppard, Gavin MacLeod, Bert Remsen, Harry Dean Stanton, plus veteran stalwarts Woody Strode, James Edwards, Robert Blake, and Bob Steele. Milestone had previously directed the pacifist WWI classic All Quiet on the Western Front and the compassionate WWII platoon drama A Walk in the Sun. Pork Chop Hill adds one more antiwar classic to his résumé, the angry power of his drama overcoming the hollow patriotic voice-over (reportedly added by Peck) that concludes the drama. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Good, Solid Close to the Ground Tale of Men in Combat
"Pork Chop Hill" is set late in the Korean War as the negotiations drone at the "Peace Talks". An infantry company is given the mission to recapture a "strategically meaningless" hill. It's not meaningless if the Army sends you there! PCH is based on a book by BG S.L.A. Marshall, a prominent military historian. Right from the outset, there is a brooding, moody element to the film, especially early on. The b&w photography is just right. Gregory Peck is front as center as company commander, aided ... Read More
Rating: - On the mark with the Korean War
For the dedicated amateur war historian, this film on the Korean War is on the mark, perhaps more than any similar movie on that "police action." It is based on actual events in the last few days of the war, and advised by the actual Lt. Joe Clemons, who is portrayed very ably by Gregory Peck. For viewers who are looking for clever, subtle political statements on war in general, this is not necessarily your film.
Yes indeed, one clear message sent via the film is that the Korean War ... Read More
Rating: - Pork Chop Hill
Although somewhat dated for the tastes of today's students, the film and Gregory Peck are a believable backdrop for discussions about the war.
Rating: - One of the Best
If you are looking for a movie that demonstrates the mettle of American soldiers and leaders trapped in a desparate struggle against the odds, then this movie delivers.
While Saving Private Ryan has become something of a standard for reviewers of the war genre, Pork Chop Hill was one of its hard hitting predecessors. It did not need to show the blood and gore to get the point across... the brutality is apparent.
Gregory Peck also puts in what I think to be one of his best ... Read More
Rating:  - Pork Chop Hill
great war picture and intense action scenes. Good role for Gregory Peck.
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