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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792841661
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792841662
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 18, 1999
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 9734
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1959
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Lt. Joe Clemons (Gregory Peck) has been given the order: take Pork Chop Hill. If it's taken by the Chinese, US negotiators at the Panmunjom peace conference would lose face with their communist adversariesan unthinkable outcome. And so, Clemons leads his troops into combat, to fight for an objective that they know to be strategically pointless. But they also know that an order is an order and they must take Pork Chop Hillor die tryingso that millions can live in freedom tomorrow for what Clemons and his men will sacrifice today. Based on a true story and featuring an all-star supporting cast, Pork Chop Hill is an exceptional film"grim, rugged, awesome and lastingly impressive" (The New York Times).
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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
Average Rating: 
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 WarFor 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
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- Pork Chop HillAlthough 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 BestIf 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 Hillgreat war picture and intense action scenes. Good role for Gregory Peck.
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