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Pork Chop Hill [1959]
starring: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, Carl Benton Reid
directed by: Lewis Milestone

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5014780512986
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, PAL
Label: MGM Entertainment
Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Entertainment
Release Date: May 29, 2000
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 08, 1960
Sales Rank: 20391

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Synopsis:
During the Korean War, an American platoon, led by their inscrutable lieutenant, attack a Chinese-held hill of questionable strategic value at great cost to lives and ammunition. The futility of war and heroism is put into chillingly ironic perspective against the vivid spectacle.
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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Gregory Peck orders a bayonet charge
In the spring of 1953, a company of the U.S. Army was ordered to assault an otherwise unprepossessing lump of Korean real estate called Pork Chop Hill. It's only value to either side was as a chess piece in the peace talks at Panmunjon, which were stalled on the question of where to pencil-in the cease-fire line. The Americans had occupied it; the Red Chinese had overwhelmed it; and now Gregory Peck (as Lt. Joe Clemons) is ordered to take his 135-man company and re-take it. PORK CHOP HILL is ostensibly based on the actual battle, and a qualifier at the beginning even states that most of the names haven't been changed.

As the battle unfolded, I began to mentally compare the production with recent, outstanding, "last stand" epics, specifically ... Read More:

 



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