Pork Chop Hill
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- For the Korean War battles, see Battle of Pork Chop Hill.
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| Directed by | Lewis Milestone |
| Written by | Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall |
| Starring | Gregory Peck Woody Strode |
| Release date(s) | 1959 |
| Running time | 97 min. |
| Language | English |
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Pork Chop Hill is a war film released in 1959, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Gregory Peck and Woody Strode. The film introduced many actors who would become stars in the 1960s and 1970s including George Peppard, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, Robert Blake, Norman Fell, Martin Landau and Gavin MacLeod. The film is based on a book of the same title by military historian S. L. A. Marshall. The book recounts the Battle of Pork Chop Hill, a fierce engagement which took place between soldiers of the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry Division, and Chinese Communist Forces, during the last stages of the Korean War, in the spring of 1953.
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In the waning days of the Korean War, a company of American soldiers is sent to re-take a hill from a much larger force of the Chinese Army. They are successful in their goal of retaking the top of the hill but are depleted in fighting strength. They get ready for a large-scale Chinese counter-attack in which they know they'll be overwhelmed and killed. The vicious fighting occurred during the Panmunjeom cease-fire negotiations. The film suggests that the Chinese continue to lose lives over the insignificant hill for the sole reason to show their political resolve at the bargaining table. The question is how will the Americans respond?
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